Banks to pass on full rate cuts…April fool!

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Straight from the horse’s mouth, via Chanticleer:

…up in Hong Kong, as least one of the Big Four was making it very clear that full pass-through was unlikely; the bank was keen that investors particularly understood that deposit rates at zero gave it very little room to move.

If we assume that somewhere between 10 basis points and 15 basis points would be passed through from an initial RBA rate cut, then perhaps the even bigger question is what might be passed on from a second rate cut?

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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.