Bloxo: RBA readying to hike rates

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Paul Bloxham, Chief Australia and new Zealand Economist at HSBC via Business Insider:

“The floating AUD has long been Australia’s most powerful economic shock absorber, and it deserves a lot of the credit for the long boom,” Bloxham says.

“It’s been a long time coming, but the widening interest rate differential with the US appears to finally be doing what the RBA is likely to have hoped it would do: push the AUD lower.”

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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.