Stimulus “one third” what is needed

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Commonwealth Bank said it was ready to cut fees and defer repayments for small business borrowers struggling with cash flow amid the coronavirus outbreak, ahead of a meeting between bank CEOs and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday in Sydney.

CBA said if the coronavirus keeps customers away and small businesses start to struggle, it is willing to push back repayments on loans and overdrafts for three months, waive fees for use of its payment terminals for three months, and will move more of its own suppliers onto immediate payment terms.

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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.