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Aussie bond boom returns
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
11
How much further can bonds rally?
Via Moody’s: Next Recession May Lower 10-year Treasury Yield to Range of 0.5% to 1% Despite today’s ultra-low yields, Treasury bonds may still pay off handsomely once recession strikes.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
2
Westpac: RBA may cut again in December
Via Bill Evans: As expected the RBA Board lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points at its October meeting to 0.75%.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
11
APRA appoints bankers galore to key positions
Apology withdrawn, Wayno, via Banking Day: Under the new structure, each of APRA’s six operating divisions will be led by an executive director, as announced yesterday by APRA chair Wayne Byres.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
5
Are banks gouging small business?
So says The Australian: Small business lending rates have barely fallen and those for credit cards have increased in the wake of three cuts in the official interest rate by the Reserve Bank to help spur economic growth.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
5
Fleeing Hong Kong capital rushes into Aussie…guess?
Via The Australian comes the Gottiboff nightmare: In Sydney, the wealth management arm of global investment bank Citi reports a 50 per cent lift in “funds flow” out of Hong Kong and into Australia.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
24
More bond records tumble
Aussie bonds are bid once more with a range of record low yields today, mostly at the short end and in the belly of the curve: The short end has begun pricing another rate cut and the curve is still inverted out the six year.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
7
As RBA finally turns sane, AFR goes mad
Bring on the QE.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
3
Goldman: MARTIN says $200bn QE needed
Via Goldman’s Andrew Boak who says that the RBA’s automated macro model, MARTIN (formerly known as a “ruler”), suggests that: “Most strikingly, the model suggests the RBA would need to implement a minus 1 per cent cash rate if it wants to achieve its unemployment and inflation goals over its 2-3 year forecast horizon.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
15
Why the RBA is still cutting
Via Damien Boey at Credit Suisse: We model the slope of the real yield curve – the spread between 10-year inflation-indexed bond yields, and real 3-month interbank rates.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
20
NAB replicates specufestor rate cut
At Domain: NAB followed CBA by saying it would cut rates for owner-occupiers and investors paying principal and interest by 0.15 percentage points.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
7
Bill Evans: Another rate cut coming
Via Bill Evans: As expected the RBA Board lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points at its October meeting to 0.75%. Westpac acknowledges that result given that we were the first forecaster to call the RBA cash rate below 1% (Bloomberg survey – May 24).
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
64
CBA keeps half of RBA cut unless you’re specufesting
It’s all aboard the specufestor train now: In a move that is likely to influence other banks’ pricing, CBA on Tuesday said it would lower rates by 0.13 percentage points for all owner-occupiers and for property investors who are paying principal and interest on their loans.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
52
RBA cuts again
Via the RBA just now: At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 0.75 per cent.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
101
Bill Evans: RBA to cut today
Via Bill Evans at Westpac just now: We expect the RBA to cut the cash rate by 25 basis points to be announced at 230 today. We will be very pleased with that result given that we were the first forecaster to pick RBA cash rate below 1% (Bloomberg survey – May 24).
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
37
Monthly inflation sags anew
Via the Melbourne Institute: month on month inflation at 0.1% in August; year on year at 1.5% Trimmed mean did a little better up 0.2 to 1.6% but there is no mistaking the lowflation here.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
1
Shadow RBA endorses monetary madness
The broken record screeches again: Australia’s inflation rate, at 1.6% (June quarter), remains well below the Reserve Bank of Australia’s official target range of 2-3%.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
1
CS: Enough rate cuts already!
Via Damien Boey at Credit Suisse today: Overnight, RBA Governor Lowe gave the strongest indication yet that the Bank is likely to cut rates when it next meets in early October.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
12
ECB mulls MMT
Via Bloomie: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the Governing Council should be open to ideas such as Modern Monetary Theory, while noting they’re closer to fiscal policy and should be directed by governments.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
7
Australian dollar falls away as bonds boom again
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
7
Generalissimo ScoMo orders more mortgages, CBA obliges
The fasco-housing complex is running hard today at the AFR: Scott Morrison says Australia’s banks must not shy away from lending after the Hayne commission as he pushes back against what he calls an “instinctiveness” in society towards responsible lending standards that are too onerous.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
21
RBA permabull turns permabear
Via Phil Lowe last night: An Economic Update I would like to thank the Armidale Business Chamber for the invitation to speak this evening.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
12
UBS does RBA QE
What will RBA QE look like?
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
2
How low will Australian yields go?
Via Westpac: Having been “out of the money” with our October RBA call prior to last week, market pricing has now moved back to an 80% chance of our 25bp rate cut forecast being delivered.
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
5
Bill Evans: More RBA than you can handle
David Llewellyn-Smith
6 years ago
16
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