Archive of: reserve bank

1. posted June 7, 2011
   

   There has been quite a lot of noise about (rising) inflation since roughly the end of March. It’s the kind of noise that borrowers and wannabe borrowers should keep an eye on. Why’s that you ask? Because there’s a clear relationship between inflation and interest rates – when inflation changes, interest rates generally go the [...]

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2. Interest rates up, future rises moderate posted May 15, 2011
   

   So the RBNZ lifted the OCR this morning, no surprises there. But the really good news is that while future increases are certain to occur, the RBNZ believe the pace of increases will be much more moderate than it has suggested in the past. For the moment that means the interest rate your bank charges [...]

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