Bonds slightly weaker amid rates debate October 4, 2013 - 4:54PM Australian bond futures prices are slightly weaker as debate continues about whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has finished cutting interest rates. Two of Australia's biggest banks have altered their rate forecasts, now expecting no more cuts in 2013. Investors are also increasingly worried there appears no end in sight to the US government shutdown. "That uncertainty should lend some support to the bond market but the weakness in our session has been mostly about Australia so we can't really attribute it to the US or any other offshore developments," Ms Ong said. It was a pretty heavy session ahead of the NSW long weekend. There's the ongoing debate about the RBA and increasingly there is a market that thinks the RBA's done and that probably weighed on bonds today.