NAB begins mortgage rate hike softening up

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It looks like it is NAB’s turn to go first, at The Australian:

Speaking this morning on ABC Radio National Mr Thorburn acknowledged big banks were also feeling the pressure.

“Deposit costs have gone up and they remain elevated from where they were six months ago,” Mr Thorburn said.

“That’s something we have under constant review. Ours, they (interests rates) haven’t moved, they’re under review and we just have to make sure we are competitive to clients,” he said.

…“Interest rates are low — they are going to be rising generally over the course of the next year or two — but they are coming off a very low base.

All but said it. Why else is he at the ABC?

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.