Bernard Hickey | interest.co.nz

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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90 seconds at 9 am: Spain nervous

90 seconds at 9 am: Spain says only wants bailout without harsh conditions, raising new Euro-zone fears; Stock rally stalls; NZ$ becalmed at 81.5 USc

9th Aug 12, 9:00am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Spain says only wants bailout without harsh conditions, raising new Euro-zone fears; Stock rally stalls; NZ$ becalmed at 81.5 USc

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: The worst and least worst insurers in Christchurch; The hubris of British bankers; Default bias and super-size fizzy drinks; The demographic death spiral in Japan (and China); Dilbert

8th Aug 12, 11:51am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Betting on ECB

90 seconds at 9 am: US and Eurostoxx rise on bets ECB and Fed will ease to buy bonds; But NZ$ falls after Key points out high NZ$ gives RBNZ room to cut OCR

8th Aug 12, 9:01am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: US and Eurostoxx rise on bets ECB and Fed will ease to buy bonds; But NZ$ falls after Key points out high NZ$ gives RBNZ room to cut OCR

Never a dull moment for the NZ$

HiFX's Dan Bell looks at the NZ$'s rise to 82 USc and talks about the risk of RBNZ intervention as foreign central banks gear up to print

7th Aug 12, 4:48pm

by Bernard Hickey

HiFX's Dan Bell looks at the NZ$'s rise to 82 USc and talks about the risk of RBNZ intervention as foreign central banks gear up to print

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: China's frightening shadow banking system; An amazing nano-trading chart; Gareth Morgan says wait for the NZ$ to fall; Thuggery and banditry in China; Dilbert

7th Aug 12, 12:00pm

by Bernard Hickey

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: China's frightening shadow banking system; An amazing nano-trading chart; Gareth Morgan says wait for the NZ$ to fall; Thuggery and banditry in China; Dilbert

90 seconds at 9 am: Tongariro erupts

90 seconds at 9 am: Tongariro erupts, closing roads and sending ash cloud towards Napier; NZ$ over 82 USc as US and European stocks rally on ECB bond buying hopes, firm profits

7th Aug 12, 9:01am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Tongariro erupts, closing roads and sending ash cloud towards Napier; NZ$ over 82 USc as US and European stocks rally on ECB bond buying hopes, firm profits

RBNZ's Bollard warns on deleveraging

RBNZ's Bollard warns deleveraging still has a long way to go; NZ private debt too high to be sustained; 'Persistently high NZ$ noted

6th Aug 12, 4:47pm

by Bernard Hickey

RBNZ's Bollard warns deleveraging still has a long way to go; NZ private debt too high to be sustained; 'Persistently high NZ$ noted

90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ surges

90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ jumps to 81.9 USc after US stocks rally on better than expected jobs growth; NZ$ back to late April levels when commodity prices were 20% higher

6th Aug 12, 8:53am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ jumps to 81.9 USc after US stocks rally on better than expected jobs growth; NZ$ back to late April levels when commodity prices were 20% higher

The new old conservatism

Bernard Hickey says the government should borrow-and-spend on big infrastructure projects. You agree?

5th Aug 12, 10:05am

by Bernard Hickey

Bernard Hickey says the government should borrow-and-spend on big infrastructure projects. You agree?

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Capital flight from China; US Postal Service may run out of cash in October; Who's afraid of Huawei?; 'It's the middle class, stupid; Clarke and Dawe

3rd Aug 12, 5:22pm

by Bernard Hickey

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Capital flight from China; US Postal Service may run out of cash in October; Who's afraid of Huawei?; 'It's the middle class, stupid; Clarke and Dawe

House prices up 11.5% - Barfoots

Barfoot and Thompson reports 998 properties sold in July, up 28% from year ago; Average price up 11.5% to record high NZ$591,444

3rd Aug 12, 10:17am

by Bernard Hickey

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Barfoot and Thompson reports 998 properties sold in July, up 28% from year ago; Average price up 11.5% to record high NZ$591,444

90 seconds at 9 am: ECB disappoints

90 seconds at 9 am: ECB says planning bond buying, but yet to convince Germans; Eurostoxx slump; Dow falls ahead of key jobs data; NZ$ up to 66.4 euro cents

3rd Aug 12, 9:02am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: ECB says planning bond buying, but yet to convince Germans; Eurostoxx slump; Dow falls ahead of key jobs data; NZ$ up to 66.4 euro cents

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: UK may nationalise RBS in desperate move to restart lending; A$ trading surges as central banks buy; Melbourne's suburban ghettos; Dilbert

2nd Aug 12, 1:44pm

by Bernard Hickey

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: UK may nationalise RBS in desperate move to restart lending; A$ trading surges as central banks buy; Melbourne's suburban ghettos; Dilbert

90 seconds at 9 am: Fed talks

90 seconds at 9 am: Fed talks the money printing talk but doesn't walk the walk; Global factory output contracting; Dow falls; NZ$ solid at 80.8 USc after milk powder prices rise 3.5%

2nd Aug 12, 9:00am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Fed talks the money printing talk but doesn't walk the walk; Global factory output contracting; Dow falls; NZ$ solid at 80.8 USc after milk powder prices rise 3.5%

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Trying to regulate shadow banking without crashing the world; Australian mining investment 'in survival mode'; Victoria's Ransom; Dilbert

1st Aug 12, 12:17pm

by Bernard Hickey

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Trying to regulate shadow banking without crashing the world; Australian mining investment 'in survival mode'; Victoria's Ransom; Dilbert

Westpac warns of 'frothy' house prices

Westpac economist warns 'low interest rates for longer' policy risks heating housing market to 'frothy' levels; sees 8% house price growth next year as OCR on hold til July 2013

1st Aug 12, 11:20am

by Bernard Hickey

Westpac economist warns 'low interest rates for longer' policy risks heating housing market to 'frothy' levels; sees 8% house price growth next year as OCR on hold til July 2013

90 seconds at 9 am: On Fed watch

90 seconds at 9 am: Dow edges down ahead of Fed decision; Eurostoxx fall as unemployment rises to 11.2%; NZ$ solid ahead of Fonterra auction

1st Aug 12, 9:02am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Dow edges down ahead of Fed decision; Eurostoxx fall as unemployment rises to 11.2%; NZ$ solid ahead of Fonterra auction

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Most Germans want to ditch the euro; Iron ore prices slump as China steel demand dries up; Argentinian capital flight; 'Lower for longer interest rates fuel housing bubbles'; Dilbert

31st Jul 12, 12:40pm

by Bernard Hickey

Selling Kiwi schnaps to China

Bernard Hickey talks to Zumwohl's Ulf Fuhrer about how he built a firm making schnaps in Wellington to export to China and eventually Germany

31st Jul 12, 9:55am

by Bernard Hickey

Bernard Hickey talks to Zumwohl's Ulf Fuhrer about how he built a firm making schnaps in Wellington to export to China and eventually Germany

90 seconds at 9 am: On print watch

90 seconds at 9 am: Markets steadier as investors await Fed and ECB confirmation of fresh money printing to restart US economy and settle euro crisis; NZ$ hits record high vs euro

31st Jul 12, 9:00am

by Bernard Hickey

90 seconds at 9 am: Markets steadier as investors await Fed and ECB confirmation of fresh money printing to restart US economy and settle euro crisis; NZ$ hits record high vs euro

Roost Home Loan Affordability Report for June

Record high house prices worsen affordability in June, but still near best levels in 8 years on record low interest rates, Roost Home Loan Affordability report shows

30th Jul 12, 6:50pm

by Bernard Hickey

Record high house prices worsen affordability in June, but still near best levels in 8 years on record low interest rates, Roost Home Loan Affordability report shows

90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ at 81 USc

90 seconds at 9 am: NZ$ rallies to over 81 USc on hope ECB will start buying Italian and Spanish bonds and talk the Fed will start printing again; BHP set to delay US$33 bln project; Ford to shut Australian plants

30th Jul 12, 9:00am

by Bernard Hickey

Barriers to entry

The new Shopping Channel will bring extra competition and has got to be good for consumers and the local economy says Bernard Hickey. Do you agree?

29th Jul 12, 10:05am

by Bernard Hickey

The new Shopping Channel will bring extra competition and has got to be good for consumers and the local economy says Bernard Hickey. Do you agree?

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Time for RBNZ to exert LVR controls; Bill English getting serious about housing supply shortages; Auckland's '2 stage' strategic housing plan; Clarke and Dawe

27th Jul 12, 12:35pm

by Bernard Hickey

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Time for RBNZ to exert LVR controls; Bill English getting serious about housing supply shortages; Auckland's '2 stage' strategic housing plan; Clarke and Dawe

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Thursday's Top 10 at 10: Japanese pensioners start selling bonds to fund their retirement; How Australians are transferring wealth between generations; Sandy Weill's Too Big To Fail apostasy; Dilbert

26th Jul 12, 4:31pm

by Bernard Hickey

Thursday's Top 10 at 10: Japanese pensioners start selling bonds to fund their retirement; How Australians are transferring wealth between generations; Sandy Weill's Too Big To Fail apostasy; Dilbert