Furious bond rally prices out RBA hikes

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Interest rate futures market are still pricing two more hikes, down from four not long ago:

The RBA rate tracker is now forecasting no more hikes:

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The bond market itself has moved on with a furious rally in the past few days to also price out the RBA entirely. The bond curve is now inverted below the current cash rate over three years:

The belly and long end are still steeper but I still maintain that this is mispricing. The Aussie curve should be flat-to-inverted as recession (likely per capita) arrives later in 2023. The US curve is much more rational:

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Any way you look at it, markets are pricing the end of RBA tightening.

In my view, to hike next month would be downright stupid.

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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.