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Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia
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Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: gloomy data isn’t helped by the big 4 banks holding back on interest rate cuts.

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