Viktor Schvets: Rate cuts coming soon

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Macquarie’s Viktor Schvets is ahead of the pack as usual:

“My view for some time was that as we go through 2023 and 2024, there is a much higher probability of loosening of both fiscal and monetary policies than tightening,” he told the Macquarie Australia Conference on Wednesday.

“What is going to happen is when Federal Reserve starts tightening – via quantitative tightening and lifting rates – and rates are getting closer and closer to neutral rates, volatility of asset prices will increase substantially.”

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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.