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February 21, 2024

While the world worries about cost-of-living, CommBank just banked $2.5 billion in profit this quarter

CBA has released its quarterly results which were described as "solid".

What's the key learning?

  • CBA released its quarterly results with a whopping $2.5 billion in profit, which is 13% more than they made in the same quarter last year.
  • CBA notes that bad debts have dropped even as interest rates have gone up.
  • Banks and some retailers are still showing very strong financial results but CBA warned that only 50% of the rate rises have actually been passed on to its customers because of fixed-rate loans.

👉 Background: CBA (aka Commonwealth Bank of Australia) is Australia’s largest retail bank with nearly 17 million customers.

👉 What happened: CBA has released its quarterly results which were described as "solid". In fact, it reported a whopping $2.5 billion in profit! And this is 13% more than they made in the same quarter last year.

👉 What else: It's interesting because CBA notes that bad debts have dropped even as interest rates have gone up.

What's the key learning?

💡These CBA results indicate that the Australian economy isn’t quite adding up right now. We’ve got:

  • Interest rates rising at the fastest rate over the past 20 years
  • Inflation rising at the fastest rate in over 30 years.
  • Business and consumer confidence is at the lowest rate since the 2008 GFC

💡Yet banks and even some retailers are still showing very strong financial results. But CBA warned that only 50% of the rate rises have actually been passed on to its customers - thanks to fixed-rate loans.

💡For now, we know that there might be dark clouds ahead, but consumers haven’t really changed their spending habits yet.

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