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Via APRA monthly banking numbers for April. Investor mortgages are still in retreat following last year’s major accident:
The year on year shrinkage will not make seen again until June when we get twelve months from APRA’s portfolio rejig. But investor mortgages are falling across the big eight banks, and accelerated downwards in April:
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NAB and WBC are leading the drawdown. ANZ has revived and CBA is flat.
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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.