David Hargreaves

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'RBNZ's next rates move more likely to be a cut'
20 Aug 18, 11:47am
David Hargreaves
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ANZ's economists change their call and now no longer expect official interest rates to rise in the foreseeable future
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TSB joins the rate-cutting party
20 Aug 18, 10:40am
David Hargreaves
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Banks continue to trim mortgage interest rates following 'dovish' statements from the Reserve Bank
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Fonterra needs breaking up
17 Aug 18, 12:01pm
David Hargreaves
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David Hargreaves argues the Government needs to concede that the creation of Fonterra was the wrong thing to do and start again
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Foreign buyers ban 'neither wise nor useful'
15 Aug 18, 6:58pm
David Hargreaves
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Top Chinese property website says if anyone has been driving up house prices, 'it’s your rich dad and uncle, not rich Chinese'
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'Vigorous' first quarter of 2019 seen for house prices
15 Aug 18, 11:51am
David Hargreaves
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Westpac's chief economist abruptly changes tack and now forecasts a house price rally early next year, with prices to climb 1.5% in the first quarter; RBNZ was the 'game changer'
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Fonterra halts CEO search and appoints interim chief
15 Aug 18, 8:25am
David Hargreaves
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Embattled dairy giant Fonterra has appointed Miles Hurrell as interim CEO with immediate effect; Theo Spierings will leave at the end of the month
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KiwiBuild LVR poser
14 Aug 18, 9:32am
David Hargreaves
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The fact borrowing on the 100,000 KiwiBuild houses will mostly fall outside the LVR restrictions may force a rethink on macro-prudential policies
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Fonterra's broken
10 Aug 18, 3:25pm
David Hargreaves
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David Hargreaves says Fonterra needs to undergo a massive overhaul otherwise the consequences could be quite drastic
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Fonterra slashes dividend, trims milk price
10 Aug 18, 8:58am
David Hargreaves
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Fonterra says dividend will be just 10c, down from 40c, while final milk price for season just gone has been cut to $6.70 from the expected $6.75; Shareholders' Council says situation 'unacceptable'
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More woe for Fonterra?
9 Aug 18, 1:33pm
David Hargreaves
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Dairy giant Fonterra has gone into a trading halt on NZX while it determines whether earnings from the July year will be different to that previously forecast
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RBNZ says interest rates will be lower for longer
9 Aug 18, 9:08am
David Hargreaves
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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
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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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Auckland's Unitary Plan 'a success'
8 Aug 18, 2:57pm
David Hargreaves
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Auckland Council points to surging housing consent numbers particularly on 'brownfield sites' as evidence the Unitary Plan is working and 'helping deliver a more compact city'
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'Difficult to achieve further increases in construction activity'
6 Aug 18, 4:06pm
David Hargreaves
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ANZ economists expect building industry to 'muddle through' at still-high activity levels, but it's not an easy road ahead
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'Meaningful lift in house prices into the mid-2020s'
6 Aug 18, 2:56pm
David Hargreaves
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Kiwibank economists estimate a national shortfall of over 100,000 homes so see no chance of 'oversupply' fuelling a correction; don't believe the RBNZ will be easing LVRs any time soon
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Has a new brain drain started?
2 Aug 18, 2:39pm
David Hargreaves
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David Hargreaves says while the figures show just a trickle of Kiwis now heading to Australia, history tells us the trickle tends to very quickly become a torrent
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Ebert Construction in receivership
1 Aug 18, 10:45am
David Hargreaves
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'Poorly performing' Auckland projects blamed for tipping construction company over the edge
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Wait and see for first home buyers?
27 Jul 18, 7:43am
David Hargreaves
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David Hargreaves mulls whether the sudden sharp drop-off in first home buyers taking up mortgages is just a glitch or shows that people are waiting for KiwiBuild
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First home buyers back off again
25 Jul 18, 3:44pm
David Hargreaves
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Total monthly mortgage borrowing figures dropped sharply in June, while the first home buyers had their smallest share of new mortgage lending so far this year
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Should we borrow more?
24 Jul 18, 10:52am
David Hargreaves
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David Hargreaves suggests that if the Government is considering lifting its spending cap it should do so as a one-off and for specific infrastructure projects
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