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Bernard Hickey

About

Bernard is back as a senior contributor on interest.co.nz. Until September 30, 2012 he was the managing editor here. He had previously worked for 18 years for Reuters, the FT Group and Fairfax as a financial journalist and editor. He is now the publisher of The Kaka.

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15 years 6 months

Latest articles

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hong Kong limits non-resident buying of property to staunch capital flood from China; How China's politics work; Laffer curve excitement machine; Dilbert
31st Oct 12, 11:30am
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hong Kong limits non-resident buying of property to staunch capital flood from China; How China's politics work; Laffer curve excitement machine; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: US$20 bln hit
90 seconds at 9 am: Frankenstorm Sandy's damages estimated at US$20 bln, but just 0.1-0.2% of GDP; Bank of Japan to print extra 11 trln yen; NZ$ solid near 82 USc
31st Oct 12, 9:00am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: Frankenstorm Sandy's damages estimated at US$20 bln, but just 0.1-0.2% of GDP; Bank of Japan to print extra 11 trln yen; NZ$ solid near 82 USc
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: RBNZ stuck in an orthodox Alice in Wonderland while rest of world reforms; US$3.8 trln of dirty money exits China; The need for healthy capitalism; Dilbert
30th Oct 12, 9:59am
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: RBNZ stuck in an orthodox Alice in Wonderland while rest of world reforms; US$3.8 trln of dirty money exits China; The need for healthy capitalism; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: Oh Sandy
90 seconds at 9 am: Hurricane Sandy bears down on 60 mln Americans; Stock and bond markets closed for days; US$20 bln damages expected; Bank of Israel cuts rate and imposes LVR limits
30th Oct 12, 9:00am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: Hurricane Sandy bears down on 60 mln Americans; Stock and bond markets closed for days; US$20 bln damages expected; Bank of Israel cuts rate and imposes LVR limits
The NIMBY problem
Bernard Hickey reviews the tough choices facing Auckland if it is to build affordable housing for 300,000+ more people and says current homeowners will have to accept big changes. Your view?
28th Oct 12, 10:05am
by Bernard Hickey
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Bernard Hickey reviews the tough choices facing Auckland if it is to build affordable housing for 300,000+ more people and says current homeowners will have to accept big changes. Your view?
Roost Home Loan Affordability Report for Sept
Roost Home Loan Affordability Report shows little change in Sept as median house price rises offset by slightly higher incomes and low interest rates
26th Oct 12, 6:56pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Roost Home Loan Affordability Report shows little change in Sept as median house price rises offset by slightly higher incomes and low interest rates
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: 'Grandpa Wen' Jiabao's family worth US$2.7 bln; The new 'Red Pill' of economics; Japan's own fiscal cliff; Australian finance company collapse; Dilbert; Clarke and Dawe
26th Oct 12, 2:41pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: 'Grandpa Wen' Jiabao's family worth US$2.7 bln; The new 'Red Pill' of economics; Japan's own fiscal cliff; Australian finance company collapse; Dilbert; Clarke and Dawe
90 seconds at 9 am: Romney ahead
90 seconds at 9 am: Obama votes early as Romney edges ahead in latest poll 11 days from election; UK GDP up 1% in Sept qtr; Top 100 NZ tech firms grow exports to NZ$5.2 bln
26th Oct 12, 9:04am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: Obama votes early as Romney edges ahead in latest poll 11 days from election; UK GDP up 1% in Sept qtr; Top 100 NZ tech firms grow exports to NZ$5.2 bln
How to hedge currency risk
Kiwibank's Nigel Gaudin explains how small to medium businesses can think about and plan to manage their exchange rate risks to avoid pure speculation
25th Oct 12, 2:25pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Kiwibank's Nigel Gaudin explains how small to medium businesses can think about and plan to manage their exchange rate risks to avoid pure speculation
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: The growthless recovery, happiness and equality; Bank of England out of ammo and worried; Nigel Farage's latest Euro-rant; Auckland housing's elephant in the room; Dilbert
25th Oct 12, 12:20pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: The growthless recovery, happiness and equality; Bank of England out of ammo and worried; Nigel Farage's latest Euro-rant; Auckland housing's elephant in the room; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: Still printing
90 seconds at 9 am: US Federal Reserve sticks with money printing plan despite improving US economy; US sues BoA for US$ 1bln over 'The Hustle'; Gold drops on deflation fears
25th Oct 12, 8:55am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: US Federal Reserve sticks with money printing plan despite improving US economy; US sues BoA for US$ 1bln over 'The Hustle'; Gold drops on deflation fears
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: How the All Blacks' new sponsor bounced back from AIGmageddon; Germany audits its foreign gold holdings; Peugeot's very French guarantee; Dilbert
24th Oct 12, 12:36pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: How the All Blacks' new sponsor bounced back from AIGmageddon; Germany audits its foreign gold holdings; Peugeot's very French guarantee; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: 0.75% OCR?
90 seconds at 9 am: NZIER shadow board split on OCR cuts; Eaqub sees 0.75% OCR possible; US stocks fall on earnings fear; Firms hoard US$4 trln; NZ$ down to 81.2 USc
24th Oct 12, 9:00am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: NZIER shadow board split on OCR cuts; Eaqub sees 0.75% OCR possible; US stocks fall on earnings fear; Firms hoard US$4 trln; NZ$ down to 81.2 USc
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Corporates sitting on US$4 trln of cash; US bankers want to 'throw off the wet blanket of regulation' to unleash their 'animal spirits'; 'Just cancel the debt'; Dilbert
23rd Oct 12, 3:14pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Corporates sitting on US$4 trln of cash; US bankers want to 'throw off the wet blanket of regulation' to unleash their 'animal spirits'; 'Just cancel the debt'; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: Stocks fall
90 seconds at 9 am: US stocks fall 2% since Friday on weak corporate earnings; NZ$ down to 81.6 USc; Eyes ahead to first Wheeler decision; Japanese exports down 10%
23rd Oct 12, 9:02am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: US stocks fall 2% since Friday on weak corporate earnings; NZ$ down to 81.6 USc; Eyes ahead to first Wheeler decision; Japanese exports down 10%
Boycott the tax avoiders
How much freedom should individuals or companies have to change their affairs in response to tax rules? Bernard Hickey calls on us to join a British boycott of companies that do this. Your view?
21st Oct 12, 10:05am
by Bernard Hickey
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How much freedom should individuals or companies have to change their affairs in response to tax rules? Bernard Hickey calls on us to join a British boycott of companies that do this. Your view?
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: NZ's amazing property machine; Bo Xilai's many concubines; The global cancer of tax-avoiding multi-nationals; How increasing inequality reduces growth; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert
19th Oct 12, 4:37pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: NZ's amazing property machine; Bo Xilai's many concubines; The global cancer of tax-avoiding multi-nationals; How increasing inequality reduces growth; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: Google misses
90 seconds at 9 am: Google shares slump after it accidentally releases profit result that misses forecasts; US stocks fall; NZ$ under 82 USc; Euro-nerves easier for now
19th Oct 12, 9:01am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: Google shares slump after it accidentally releases profit result that misses forecasts; US stocks fall; NZ$ under 82 USc; Euro-nerves easier for now
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: BHP's sobering outlook on Chinese steel demand; Why China doesn't need to stimulate too hard; Soros calls on Germany to stave off Euro-depression; Skateboarding in China's ghost city of Ordos; Dilbert
18th Oct 12, 11:38am
by Bernard Hickey
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: BHP's sobering outlook on Chinese steel demand; Why China doesn't need to stimulate too hard; Soros calls on Germany to stave off Euro-depression; Skateboarding in China's ghost city of Ordos; Dilbert
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Dozen Ferarris race on Chinese highway...then crash; How QE just enriches the banks and the richest 1%; 3% of Chinese GDP exits China; Dilbert; Jon Stewart is a Muppet
17th Oct 12, 11:09am
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Dozen Ferarris race on Chinese highway...then crash; How QE just enriches the banks and the richest 1%; 3% of Chinese GDP exits China; Dilbert; Jon Stewart is a Muppet
90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ weak
90 seconds at 9 am: US stocks up on US factory output rise, but NZ$ weaker on fresh talk of RBNZ rate cut after lowest inflation since 99; Citigroup CEO Pandit resigns unexpectedly
17th Oct 12, 9:01am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: US stocks up on US factory output rise, but NZ$ weaker on fresh talk of RBNZ rate cut after lowest inflation since 99; Citigroup CEO Pandit resigns unexpectedly
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: How Starbucks avoids paying tax in Britain; Separatism sweeping across Europe; Chinese exporters hit harder than in 2008; Swiss prepare for European civil unrest; Dilbert
16th Oct 12, 3:47pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: How Starbucks avoids paying tax in Britain; Separatism sweeping across Europe; Chinese exporters hit harder than in 2008; Swiss prepare for European civil unrest; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am: Rate cut talk
90 seconds at 9 am: US retail sales better than expected; US stocks rise; NZ$ firmer; Talk grows of NZ rate cut as eyes turn to slowing inflation
16th Oct 12, 9:01am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: US retail sales better than expected; US stocks rise; NZ$ firmer; Talk grows of NZ rate cut as eyes turn to slowing inflation
90 seconds at 9 am: Euro summit
90 seconds at 9 am: European summit faces indecision on fiscal union, banking union and disputes over Greece; Bernanke denies QE Infinity unleashing damaging capital flows
15th Oct 12, 9:03am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am: European summit faces indecision on fiscal union, banking union and disputes over Greece; Bernanke denies QE Infinity unleashing damaging capital flows
The end of growth?
Bernard Hickey wonders how much growth there will really be as we battle the headwinds of demography, debt, education, inequality, globalisation, and climate change. How will this change our future?
14th Oct 12, 10:06am
by Bernard Hickey
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Bernard Hickey wonders how much growth there will really be as we battle the headwinds of demography, debt, education, inequality, globalisation, and climate change. How will this change our future?