AFR rate cuts whaaambulance reaches intensive care unit

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Chanticleer is at it again today:

At the end of a huge week for the big four banks, it’s time for those reliant on dividend income to think hard about the longer-term implications of official interest rates being lower for longer.

There is no need to panic. But as official rates set by the Reserve Bank of Australia move to 1 per cent and possibly 0.75 per cent over the next six months, there will be enormous downward pressure on bank profitability.

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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.