RBA leaks QE

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Via the AFR, this sure sounds like a leak:

The Reserve Bank will cut the cash rate to a record low of 0.25 per cent and target four-year government bonds in the country’s first major quantitative easing package worth a speculated $50 billion, all designed to contain a blowout in borrowing costs for corporates and the federal government

…The three-year bond rate has increased from a low of 0.37 per cent in early March as market panic set in, to 0.5 per cent, having traded at 0.75 per cent in mid-February. While the five-year bond rate has also risen 40 per cent since March, from 0.45 per cent to 0.65 per cent, having traded at 0.8 per cent in mid-February.

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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.