CPI Inflation

'Effectively zero' house price inflation for NZ

13 Feb 19, 4:47pm

RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr says central bank has 'historically low level' of house price inflation projected; says investor perceptions 'are being tested at the moment'
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RBNZ pushes out timeframe for interest rate moves

13 Feb 19, 2:08pm

David Hargreaves

48 comments

Reserve Bank leaves Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75%; No change to rates seen before 2021; Next move 'up or down'
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Sharp drop in expectations for house price rises

13 Feb 19, 8:50am

David Hargreaves

11 comments

Influential RBNZ Survey of expectations shows significant change in view of house prices this year - with the average pick now for gains of less than 2%
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'No Official Cash Rate change as far as the proverbial eye can see'

11 Feb 19, 9:20am

David Hargreaves

81 comments

Westpac economists change their call and now see no OCR change before 2022, with the 'balance of risks' for rates going up or down evenly balanced
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Only the interest rates will be the same

7 Feb 19, 5:00am

David Hargreaves

3 comments

The Reserve Bank's first major set piece of the year will be all-change as the central bank prepares for the imminent introduction of a formal committee-based interest rate setting structure
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Turning the tables

4 Feb 19, 8:25am

Guest

1 comment

Mercer's David Scobie says financial markets have delivered investors a reality check
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RBNZ says interest rates still on hold till 2020

8 Nov 18, 9:05am

David Hargreaves

85 comments

Reserve Bank leaves Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75%; still sees upside and downside risks
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Short term inflation expectations spike upwards

7 Nov 18, 3:29pm

David Hargreaves

18 comments

Influential RBNZ Survey of expectations shows sharp rise in inflation expected over next year, but more subdued in two years' time; house price expectations have moved up a little
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Unemployment plummets to 3.9%

7 Nov 18, 11:12am

David Hargreaves

110 comments

Stats NZ says unemployment rate now lowest since June 2008; Employment rate at 68.3% is highest since the series began 30 years ago; wage growth remains subdued
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Inflation surges

16 Oct 18, 10:59am

David Hargreaves

44 comments

Stats NZ says prices rose 0.9% in the September quarter, giving an annual inflation rate of 1.9%; economists expected just a 0.7% quarterly rise
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Pumping it up

15 Oct 18, 11:44am

David Hargreaves

23 comments

We face the apparently contradictory situation in which inflation is strongly rising and yet the Reserve Bank will keep the possibility of interest rate cuts on the table
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RBNZ still flying with the doves

24 Sep 18, 3:29pm

David Hargreaves

5 comments

Despite last week's surprisingly strong GDP figures, economists believe the Reserve Bank will stick to its 'dovish' view that the next move in interest rates could be down when it reviews the Official Cash Rate on Thursday
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'RBNZ's next rates move more likely to be a cut'

20 Aug 18, 11:47am

David Hargreaves

47 comments

ANZ's economists change their call and now no longer expect official interest rates to rise in the foreseeable future
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Another winter of discontent in NZ?

9 Aug 18, 10:50am

Sharon Zollner

4 comments

ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner looks at the detail of the country's slumping business confidence and what this might mean for the economy
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RBNZ says interest rates will be lower for longer

9 Aug 18, 9:08am

David Hargreaves

73 comments

Reserve Bank leaves Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75%; Governor now says next move won't occur till 2020; still sees next move as either up or down
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Businesses see sharp slide in economic growth

8 Aug 18, 3:39pm

David Hargreaves

19 comments

Influential RBNZ Survey of expectations shows anticipated inflation of 2.04% in two years time, up from 2.01% in May; however, GDP tipped to grow just 2.32% in next year, down from 2.64% as expected in May
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First unemployment increase since 2016

1 Aug 18, 11:15am

Jason Walls

87 comments

Figures from Stats NZ show unemployment is up slightly, but overall wage inflation has seen a sizeable boost
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This week's guest Top 10

1 Jun 18, 10:00am

Jarrod Kerr

18 comments

Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr on the Top 10 risks to the Kiwi economy; weak income growth, trade war, agriculture risks, the Springbok induced 2008 global financial crisis & more
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RBNZ 'unlikely to relax LVR rules'

28 May 18, 1:49pm

David Hargreaves

3 comments

Economists doubt the Reserve Bank will want to further roll back mortgage lending restrictions this week and will prefer to wait longer to see how the housing market develops this year
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