JPM goes there: RBA to slash and burn four rate cuts

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JP Morgan’s Sally Auld tracks MB into the all-in position of four rate cuts over the next year:

“A number of developments in recent months suggest the RBA is unlikely to achieve desired macro-economic outcomes with only 50 basis points of easing. In the next year the RBA cash rate is likely to reach a level close to the effective lower bound, marking the end of a decade-long convergence trade for AUD versus Developed Markets rate spreads…and remain their for some time.”

“[a] shift lower in the Phillips Curve means that lower rates of unemployment are now necessary to deliver target consistent inflation outcomes”.

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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.