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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

Never a dull moment for the NZ$
HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action and looks ahead to the next ECB money dump and Bernanke's testimony
25th Feb 12, 12:15pm
by Bernard Hickey
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HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action and looks ahead to the next ECB money dump and Bernanke's testimony
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: The art and craft movement; Germany's race to the bottom; Canada's obscenely overpriced housing market; 'That little pr**k Quade Cooper'; Clarke and Dawe
24th Feb 12, 1:04pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: The art and craft movement; Germany's race to the bottom; Canada's obscenely overpriced housing market; 'That little pr**k Quade Cooper'; Clarke and Dawe
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US stocks firm on solid jobs data; European banks fall on Greek writedowns; US petrol prices high; Ports of Auckland strike starts
24th Feb 12, 8:44am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US stocks firm on solid jobs data; European banks fall on Greek writedowns; US petrol prices high; Ports of Auckland strike starts
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Explaining Modern Monetary Theory; An Australian Fannie Mae?; Al Jazeera on peak oil; Hugh Hendry on hyper-deflation leading to hyper-inflation; Dilbert
23rd Feb 12, 2:46pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Explaining Modern Monetary Theory; An Australian Fannie Mae?; Al Jazeera on peak oil; Hugh Hendry on hyper-deflation leading to hyper-inflation; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Chinese factory output down again; Chinese export orders worst in 8 months; Fletcher's profit warning; Trade Me on track
23rd Feb 12, 8:35am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Chinese factory output down again; Chinese export orders worst in 8 months; Fletcher's profit warning; Trade Me on track
NZ$ may hit 90 USc by 2013 - ANZ
BusinessDesk: NZ$ could hit 90 US cents in early 2013 as greenback faces headwinds, ANZ's economists forecast. Your view?
22nd Feb 12, 8:02pm
by Bernard Hickey
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BusinessDesk: NZ$ could hit 90 US cents in early 2013 as greenback faces headwinds, ANZ's economists forecast. Your view?
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: ECB set to turn off easy money tap; Good euros and bad euros; Petricevic didn't read prospectus; Uninsured in Christchurch; Dilbert
22nd Feb 12, 3:48pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: ECB set to turn off easy money tap; Good euros and bad euros; Petricevic didn't read prospectus; Uninsured in Christchurch; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal finally done, but haircut bigger and doubts remain; Dow over 13,000; Auckland strongest in regional survey
22nd Feb 12, 9:02am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal finally done, but haircut bigger and doubts remain; Dow over 13,000; Auckland strongest in regional survey
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Greece's unemployment bomb; The race to debase; Where is the confidence fairy?; John Key's regulatory tradeoffs; Dilbert
21st Feb 12, 1:25pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Greece's unemployment bomb; The race to debase; Where is the confidence fairy?; John Key's regulatory tradeoffs; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal expected later today; Stocks firm on deal hopes and China easing; NZ$ at 84 USc; Lloyds bank claws back bonuses
21st Feb 12, 8:32am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal expected later today; Stocks firm on deal hopes and China easing; NZ$ at 84 USc; Lloyds bank claws back bonuses
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: A London banker turns on his own; More fake bonds; Casino capers; Emissions trading fail; The anti-science movement; Dilbert
20th Feb 12, 1:52pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: A London banker turns on his own; More fake bonds; Casino capers; Emissions trading fail; The anti-science movement; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: China eases monetary policy as Chinese house prices fall; China confident of 'no hard landing'; Another Greek deadline; Iranian oil embargo
20th Feb 12, 8:22am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: China eases monetary policy as Chinese house prices fall; China confident of 'no hard landing'; Another Greek deadline; Iranian oil embargo
Build baby build
Bernard Hickey sees a massive opportunity in two of our most intractable problems. How do you see it?
19th Feb 12, 12:05pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Bernard Hickey sees a massive opportunity in two of our most intractable problems. How do you see it?
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Tony Maryatt's golf day; the doubling of the Wellington Council CEO's salary; The banking equity doom loop; Germany vs Greece; 'Savers will pay'; Dilbert
17th Feb 12, 9:20am
by Bernard Hickey
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Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Tony Maryatt's golf day; the doubling of the Wellington Council CEO's salary; The banking equity doom loop; Germany vs Greece; 'Savers will pay'; Dilbert
Crafar ruling just what the NZ addict needed
Opinion: Bernard Hickey says the High Court ruling against the Crafar Farms sale may be just the intervention NZ Inc needs to confont its addiction to foreign debt and asset sales
16th Feb 12, 7:09am
by Bernard Hickey
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Opinion: Bernard Hickey says the High Court ruling against the Crafar Farms sale may be just the intervention NZ Inc needs to confont its addiction to foreign debt and asset sales
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Greece's (even) darker and stormier night; the conspiracy around LIBOR; Guanxi's 22% wage increase; The debt pall over Australia; Dilbert
15th Feb 12, 10:51pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Greece's (even) darker and stormier night; the conspiracy around LIBOR; Guanxi's 22% wage increase; The debt pall over Australia; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: NZ$ hits yen high as Bank of Japan prints again; NZ$ hits 53p as UK rating outlook cut; Greek nerves back; US retail sales disappoint
15th Feb 12, 8:53am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: NZ$ hits yen high as Bank of Japan prints again; NZ$ hits 53p as UK rating outlook cut; Greek nerves back; US retail sales disappoint
ANZ, National cut mortgage rates
ANZ and National banks cut 1 yr, 3 yr, 4 yr and 5 yr mortgage rates by up to 35 basis points
14th Feb 12, 6:39pm
by Bernard Hickey
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ANZ and National banks cut 1 yr, 3 yr, 4 yr and 5 yr mortgage rates by up to 35 basis points
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: NZ housing more over-valued than Australia, UK; Sydney, Melbourne world's 4th,5th most expensive cities; Top Indian cop sees NZ as tax haven for corrupt money; Dilbert
14th Feb 12, 1:16pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: NZ housing more over-valued than Australia, UK; Sydney, Melbourne world's 4th,5th most expensive cities; Top Indian cop sees NZ as tax haven for corrupt money; Dilbert
NZ property values rising again
Quotable Value survey shows NZ property values up 1.1% in last 3 months and up 2.7% above a year ago, but still 3.3% below late 2007 peak
14th Feb 12, 12:15pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Quotable Value survey shows NZ property values up 1.1% in last 3 months and up 2.7% above a year ago, but still 3.3% below late 2007 peak
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal passes but no European approval yet; Australia shaken by job losses; Obama to tax the American rich more
14th Feb 12, 8:49am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greek deal passes but no European approval yet; Australia shaken by job losses; Obama to tax the American rich more
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: China extends and pretends by rolling capitalising loans to local govts; What Warren Buffett likes to invest in; 'Let them default'; Dilbert
13th Feb 12, 3:33pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: China extends and pretends by rolling capitalising loans to local govts; What Warren Buffett likes to invest in; 'Let them default'; Dilbert
Will NZ banks hike rates before OCR?
Opinion: NZ banks may follow their Australian parents and hike floating mortgage rates before any official move, but will struggle to justify it. Your view?
13th Feb 12, 12:32pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Opinion: NZ banks may follow their Australian parents and hike floating mortgage rates before any official move, but will struggle to justify it. Your view?
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy; NZ$ weaker as European fears weigh
13th Feb 12, 8:19am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy; NZ$ weaker as European fears weigh
Training our replacements
Globalisation seemed the perfect solution to lift the third world out of poverty. But it has cost the western middle classes their comfortable lifestyles, says Bernard Hickey
13th Feb 12, 7:35am
by Bernard Hickey
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Globalisation seemed the perfect solution to lift the third world out of poverty. But it has cost the western middle classes their comfortable lifestyles, says Bernard Hickey