– We continue to expect a first Official Cash Rate hike in March 2014
– And thereafter a steady ‘normalisation’ of the OCR to a peak of 4.50% in mid-2015
– We do not see floating rates imminently surging higher
– However, the recent pull-back in long-term fixed rates has made hedging against their eventual rise more
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