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Bank of America has a warning for Australia's $4.5 trillion superannuation sector

Summary

The Bank of America and dependent to a degree on functioning financial markets, is asking itself that question. The Federal Reserve is the US equivalent of Australia's Reserve Bank.

The report’s most important sentence, shortened and in plain words. How

Interest rates are approaching levels that would hurt Australia's economy and the retirement savings managed by superannuation funds.

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

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This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 903-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

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ABC Newsas they published this story 15.3

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