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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

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: It's the solvency stupid, not just the liquidity; What really happens inside hedge funds; A continent stares into the abyss; Should we bill in Deutschemarks?; Dilbert
1st Dec 11, 7:03pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: It's the solvency stupid, not just the liquidity; What really happens inside hedge funds; A continent stares into the abyss; Should we bill in Deutschemarks?; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Central banks stage emergency intervention to help European banks; China eases; NZ$ jumps to 78 USc
1st Dec 11, 9:02am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Central banks stage emergency intervention to help European banks; China eases; NZ$ jumps to 78 USc
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: ECB struggling to control Euro crisis; UK slashes budget again; American Airlines bankrupt; Fitch warns may cut US
30th Nov 11, 8:29am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: ECB struggling to control Euro crisis; UK slashes budget again; American Airlines bankrupt; Fitch warns may cut US
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir; Beware the Chengguan; How US banks made US$13 bln profit from the Fed's bailout; 'Euro has 10 days until collapse'; Dilbert
29th Nov 11, 1:09pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir; Beware the Chengguan; How US banks made US$13 bln profit from the Fed's bailout; 'Euro has 10 days until collapse'; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: European and US stocks surge on Euro rescue hopes; OECD cuts global growth forecasts; NZ$ up to 75.5 USc
29th Nov 11, 9:01am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: European and US stocks surge on Euro rescue hopes; OECD cuts global growth forecasts; NZ$ up to 75.5 USc
ASB, ANZ delay OCR hike views
ASB economists delay expectation of RBNZ rate hike until end of 2012 from mid 2012, citing European crisis. Your view?
28th Nov 11, 2:35pm
by Bernard Hickey
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ASB economists delay expectation of RBNZ rate hike until end of 2012 from mid 2012, citing European crisis. Your view?
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Europe's new plan to bail out banks with taxpayer money; Iceland blocks sale of land to Chinese billionaire; The madness of using vendor finance to deleverage; Dilbert
28th Nov 11, 11:40am
by Bernard Hickey
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Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Europe's new plan to bail out banks with taxpayer money; Iceland blocks sale of land to Chinese billionaire; The madness of using vendor finance to deleverage; Dilbert
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Focus swings to European crisis and SOE floats after National wins second term; Germany, France scramble for fiscal union; Black Friday sales up 6.6%
28th Nov 11, 9:03am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Focus swings to European crisis and SOE floats after National wins second term; Germany, France scramble for fiscal union; Black Friday sales up 6.6%
Dan Bell sees Euro crisis hitting NZ$
Double Shot Interview: HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action, including German's shock bond auction failure, the US Super Committee's failure and China's falling factory output
27th Nov 11, 1:08pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Double Shot Interview: HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action, including German's shock bond auction failure, the US Super Committee's failure and China's falling factory output
Now the hangover starts for NZ
Opinion: Bernard Hickey says a second term Key-led govt (and voters) now face an economic hangover as Europe implodes
26th Nov 11, 11:19pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Opinion: Bernard Hickey says a second term Key-led govt (and voters) now face an economic hangover as Europe implodes
Russel Norman on money printing
Double shot interview: Bernard Hickey talks to Green Party co-leader Russel Norman about intensive dairying, child poverty and the possible need (eventually) for money printing
25th Nov 11, 6:24pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Double shot interview: Bernard Hickey talks to Green Party co-leader Russel Norman about intensive dairying, child poverty and the possible need (eventually) for money printing
Friday's Top 10 at 10 with NZ Mint
Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Don't mention the Weimar Republic (or the war); Fed to test how US banks would handle depression scenario; The Economist sees NZ housing 25% overvalued; Clarke and Dawe
25th Nov 11, 5:17pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Don't mention the Weimar Republic (or the war); Fed to test how US banks would handle depression scenario; The Economist sees NZ housing 25% overvalued; Clarke and Dawe
BNZ trialling swipe phone 'wallet'
BNZ launches trial of 'wallet' phones with embedded chips able to make payments with a swipe. Your view?
25th Nov 11, 10:21am
by Bernard Hickey
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BNZ launches trial of 'wallet' phones with embedded chips able to make payments with a swipe. Your view?
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Two polls show NZ First over 5% threshold on election eve; US stocks falling on Merkel's block on Euro bonds
25th Nov 11, 8:59am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: Two polls show NZ First over 5% threshold on election eve; US stocks falling on Merkel's block on Euro bonds
Ansvar to pull out of NZ altogether
Church and rest home insurer Ansvar will cancel all NZ policies from December 31 after massive earthquake losses and reinsurance cost blowout
24th Nov 11, 5:18pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Church and rest home insurer Ansvar will cancel all NZ policies from December 31 after massive earthquake losses and reinsurance cost blowout
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: 'Europe's slow motion train wreck goes viral and global'; China starts easing bank reserve rules; Umbrella Man; Dilbert
24th Nov 11, 2:32pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: 'Europe's slow motion train wreck goes viral and global'; China starts easing bank reserve rules; Umbrella Man; Dilbert
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Chinese shipping firm can't pay its bills; Deep inside Southern Europe's silent bank runs; Austrian banks pulling out of Eastern Europe; Dilbert
23rd Nov 11, 11:30am
by Bernard Hickey
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Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Chinese shipping firm can't pay its bills; Deep inside Southern Europe's silent bank runs; Austrian banks pulling out of Eastern Europe; Dilbert
Roost Home Loan Affordability for Oct
Roost Home Loan Affordability report for October shows deterioration nationally, but falling interest rates keeping borrowers interested
22nd Nov 11, 5:34pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Roost Home Loan Affordability report for October shows deterioration nationally, but falling interest rates keeping borrowers interested
BNZ expands Chinese footprint
BNZ's parent National Australia Bank opens branch in Shanghai; plans Mumbai branch next year
22nd Nov 11, 12:26pm
by Bernard Hickey
BNZ's parent National Australia Bank opens branch in Shanghai; plans Mumbai branch next year
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US stocks down, NZ$ hits 8 mth low as US 'super-committee' failure looms; Europe strife deepens as ECB pauses bond-buying
22nd Nov 11, 9:03am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US stocks down, NZ$ hits 8 mth low as US 'super-committee' failure looms; Europe strife deepens as ECB pauses bond-buying
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hard landing brewing in China; Silent European bank run under way; Euro a 'weapon of monetary mass destruction'; Niall Ferguson's future history lession; Dilberts
22nd Nov 11, 8:15am
by Bernard Hickey
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Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hard landing brewing in China; Silent European bank run under way; Euro a 'weapon of monetary mass destruction'; Niall Ferguson's future history lession; Dilberts
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ
90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US deficit fears back on radar; European crisis talks grind on; Spanish voting for change; NZ election the focus
21st Nov 11, 9:00am
by Bernard Hickey
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90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ: US deficit fears back on radar; European crisis talks grind on; Spanish voting for change; NZ election the focus
A plague on both their houses
Opinion: Bernard Hickey says both National and Labour are still using the enablers of borrowing and asset sales to encourage NZ to live beyond their means
21st Nov 11, 8:05am
by Bernard Hickey
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Opinion: Bernard Hickey says both National and Labour are still using the enablers of borrowing and asset sales to encourage NZ to live beyond their means
Dan Bell sees Euro crisis hitting NZ$
Double Shot Interview: HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action, including NZ's slide as Euro crisis deepens and US budget fears return
19th Nov 11, 1:41pm
by Bernard Hickey
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Double Shot Interview: HiFX's Dan Bell reviews the week's global currencies action, including NZ's slide as Euro crisis deepens and US budget fears return
Saturday's Top 10 with NZ Mint
Saturday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: America's growing grumpiness with China; Nigel Farage's anti-eurocrat lashing; China's housing bubble bursting; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert
19th Nov 11, 11:19am
by Bernard Hickey
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Saturday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: America's growing grumpiness with China; Nigel Farage's anti-eurocrat lashing; China's housing bubble bursting; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert