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Changes to bank capital requirements may mean home loan interest rates are lower than they could otherwise have been, but the impact is likely to be small, economists say.

The Reserve Bank announced on Wednesday it would go ahead with its plans to reduce the amount of capital banks are required to hold against their loans by about $5 billion overall.

The rate has been increasing in stages sinc

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