The RBA must have struggled to put verbiage together this week in order to make their very important interest rate decision. Regurgitating views we already know: the usual waffle on Europe we've seen for months now in all the financial media; Food Prices are unwinding (Thanks to Coles supermarket - lucky they slapped together a discount advertising campaign otherwise the RBA minutes would be a sentence shorter), unemployment has risen; etc etc.
Is anyone awake at the RBA and looked out the window? The verbiage is wonderful, but a cursory glance at the 90 day bill rate shows that is has changed very little over the last few months. The 90 day rate is at 4.39% v's the RBA Cash rate target of 4.25%. The RBA "cash rate target" lag of the 90 day bill rate is on average 0.15%, and guess what - the RBA lag is 0.14% as of Thursday, almost bang on average.
Next month I'll get out of bed a little earlier and put up the updated charts of the 90 day v's the RBA cash rate target - and make a way out guess on what the decision will be.
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