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Bernard is the editor of interest.co.nz. He worked for 18 years for Reuters, the FT Group and Fairfax as a financial journalist and editor.
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

09 Feb 12, 1:09pm, Bernard Hickey
The mathematics of growth for cities and companies; How 0% rates are numbing investors and economies into zombiedom; The IRS is on the warpath; The politics of aspiration; Dilbert

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

09 Feb 12, 9:02am, Bernard Hickey
SFO investigating Bullion Buyers as customers report money missing; Greeks fail to do debt deal as paper work missing; Germans post record exports

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

08 Feb 12, 11:11am, Bernard Hickey
Finally an RBA board member hates a high A$; Latin America fights back in currency wars; Afghanistan's hopelessness; What Germans really think; Dilbert

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

08 Feb 12, 8:42am, Bernard Hickey
 NZ$ and US stocks firm on hopes for Greek rescue deal; Fitch warns of China hard landing; A$ up after surprise RBA decision to hold rates

Home loan affordability better in Dec

07 Feb 12, 4:04pm, Bernard Hickey
Roost Home Loan Affordability report shows improvement in December as prices dip; first home buyers keen and dipping into KiwiSaver funds

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

07 Feb 12, 11:11am, Bernard Hickey
An Australian casino's drug and sex scandal; The pain (of austerity) in Spain; Thai floods worsen reinsurer losses; Inequality and poverty in Auckland; Dilbert; Clarke and Dawe

The never a dull moment report

07 Feb 12, 8:42am, Bernard Hickey
HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action, including fears of a Greek default, talk of US and European money printing and an Australian rate cut

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

07 Feb 12, 8:22am, Bernard Hickey
Greeks fail to meet deadline for new austerity plan; Germans warn of Greek bankruptcy; NZ$ down after US jobs bounce; RBA set to cut

Beggared by our neighbours

05 Feb 12, 12:05pm, Bernard Hickey
Bernard Hickey points to the enormous game of musical chairs in the currency markets. He thinks the last one to print and devalue is the loser. Your view?

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

03 Feb 12, 9:06am, Bernard Hickey
180 jobs at risk as exporter Criterion Furniture put into receivership; China says may help Europe; Fed's Evans eyes more QE

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

02 Feb 12, 2:43pm, Bernard Hickey
Cash in their Italian undies; The age of deleveraging; Money stuck in a liquidity-trap-mattress; How corporatism killed capitalism; Dilbert

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

02 Feb 12, 9:04am, Bernard Hickey
NZ$ hits 5 mth high of 83.5 USc as risk appetites return after good Chinese, US factory data; Dairy auction robust; Facebook float excites

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Updated 01 Feb 12, 6:18pm, Bernard Hickey
Why the lights are going out in Athens; Britain's 100 mln pound house; Hong Kong house prices to fall 25%; The man who fired Greenspan for fudging his numbers; Dilbert

Listings drop despite warmer market

Updated 01 Feb 12, 9:25am, Bernard Hickey
Listings, asking prices on Realestate.co.nz drop despite warmer market; inventories also fall, suggesting sellers' market; ASB sees prices rising in 'tight' market. Your view?

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

01 Feb 12, 8:52am, Bernard Hickey
Greek crisis deepens as default nears; EU nations agree budget deal; US consumer confidence slumps; US house prices down

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

31 Jan 12, 5:07pm, Bernard Hickey
The Baltic Dry slumps; A credit squeeze in Asia and Australia; Christchurch's revolt; Auckland's rental panic; America's manufactured malaise; Dilbert

Rob Fyfe resigns as Air NZ CEO

31 Jan 12, 11:45am, Bernard Hickey
Rob Fyfe resigns as Air NZ CEO ahead of selldown of government stake; Chairman cites very strong internal candidates

NZX appoints Weldon replacement

31 Jan 12, 9:33am, Bernard Hickey
NZX appoints Singapore-based NZer Tim Bennett as CEO to replace Mark Weldon; Bennett a former BCG Asian strategy boss

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

31 Jan 12, 8:47am, Bernard Hickey
France sets unilateral Robin Hood tax; Stocks fall on growing Euro nerves as Greek deal talks drag on; Air NZ CEO Rob Fyfe to go?

Meet the RBNZ Governor candidates

30 Jan 12, 2:26pm, Bernard Hickey
Bernard Hickey surveys the potential candidates to replace Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard and wonders if a new Governor might change things