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OCR cut expectations fade
Inflation for the first quarter of the year was bang on Reserve Bank expectations and won't add weight for another rate cut next week, say economists.
Inflation for the first quarter of the year was bang on Reserve Bank expectations and won't add weight for another rate cut next week, say economists.
WATCH: Greg Peacock looks at the latest economic concern: quantitative tightening or QT.
Latest CPI stats show that plunging petrol prices have been cancelled out by rising tobacco prices, pushing inflation to 0.2pc.
Westpac economist says a resurgent property market means new lending restrictions are likely.
COMMENT: Migrants are pouring into NZ by the thousand, but these days the new arrivals aren't boosting prices the way they once did.
COMMENT: The anti-establishment movement makes great sense and should be a valuable force in the American political economy.
A record 47 tower cranes are at work across Auckland's skyline, evidence of the city's booming construction market.
COMMENT: The quarterly reporting season in the US ramps up over the next couple of weeks.
Brexit and growing economic inequality has been highlighted by the IMF as a risk to the global economy.
Real estate chief says fears about Auckland property market unfounded as prices rocket 14 per cent.
Some are calling it trolling, but there's a serious point behind the not-completely-crazy theory.
COMMENT: If there is an upside to the dairy downturn it might be the economic incentive it provides for New Zealanders to try new things.
COMMENT: Technology and foreign competition are consuming jobs, but a universal income is too crude and costly a solution.
One of the journalists behind the massive Panama Papers leak criticises New Zealand's laws around foreign trusts.
The long-held faith in open markets is beginning to fade - and it isn't just political rhetoric, reports Bill Powell.
World dairy production is slowing, which should push up prices in 2017, rural lending specialist Rabobank said in its quarterly outlook.
NZ shares have been on a roll, but a fund manager says the local market still isn't overvalued and could keep grinding higher as the year plays out.
Watch: The Kiwi dollar's rise this month has forced banks to revise their forecasts while they wait to see what the US Fed's next move is.
1 percent of firms surveyed in the NZ Institute of Economic Research's quarterly survey of business opinion expect general business conditions to deteriorate.