Hayne to smash banks?

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Analysts are getting more and more bearish on the banks, at the AFR comes Morgan Stanley with $65 target on CBA:

Scenario one would be mildly bearish for CBA stock but is also the most likely in Morgan Stanley’s view, with the broker assigning a 50 per cent probability to the mildly negative outcome where the shares could fall 4 per cent to $68.75.

The scenario assumes that the inquiry recommends a focus on responsible lending, higher compliance spending, requires the removal of excess fees and imposes modest fines along with modest customer remediation.

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About the author
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.