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06 Jun 2023

RBA hammer blow

• Quiet night. Equities a little higher. Bond yields consolidated. The USD index edged up slightly. AUD held onto its post RBA gains.• RBA hike. Cash rate now 4.1% with inflation concerns stepping up. We expect another hike. FX is a relative game. AUD is also influenced by global trends.• AUD events. RBA Governor Lowe speaks today & Q1 AU GDP is released. China trade data is also due. Bank of Canada meets tonight. An uneventful night for markets with limited news flow and no major economic releases. European and US equities ticked up. The US S&P500 rose by ~0.2%,...

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RBA: hiking until it hurts

In what we think was a finely balance decision, at least in terms of the timing not the direction, the RBA raised the cash rate by another 25bps to 4.1% at today’s meeting. This takes the cumulative tightening delivered since things started in May 2022 to 400bps, by far the most abrupt RBA rate hiking cycle since at least the early 1980s. The RBA reiterated that while inflation has passed its peak, at ~7%pa it “is still too high and it will be some time yet before it is back in the target range”. And in the RBA’s assessment, “recent...

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