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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

CBA's summary of market reaction to RBA decision

See also my instant analysis on the RBA decision. CBA's economists commented:

Going into the 2:30pm RBA announcement, bonds had rallied as much as 6bp at the front end. The RBA’s optimistic statement triggered a sell off that reversed the rally (and a bit more)...markets had been expecting a shift towards a more explicitly dovish stance and were disappointed the RBA’s language changed so little. Short term IBs sold off, but the expected terminal rate was little changed...Markets will be looking for the Australian GDP data tomorrow to confirm the RBA’s characterisation of growth as “about trend”, before attention switches to the ECB’s 6 Sep meeting.
at 8:48 PM