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Dollar stays high as traders bet Bollard will hike sooner
Allan Bollard reiterates the OCR will remain "at or below the current level through until the latter part of 2010."
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Bollard: No rates hike till late 2010
The strong kiwi dollar is a threat to a sustained recovery, says Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard, while keeping rates steady.
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Bollard leaves interest rate steady at 2.5pc
The Reserve Bank has done what most market watchers were expecting this morning and left the official interest rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent.
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Bollard focus of high-stakes poker game
Most economists are picking Alan Bollard to leave the OCR unchanged this week, but they're looking carefully for any changes in rhetoric - how much does he think things are improving?
![Home loan rate cut to lowest in 40 years](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Home loan rate cut to lowest in 40 years
ASB's floating home mortgage rate is the cheapest on the market and is thought to be the lowest available to home buyers for decades.
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'Property obsession' is the problem, not OCR
Our reliance on property to see us through retirement has come under fire at Parliament today.
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House prices keep rising, up 1pc in July
Real estate figures for July show small price rises and a five per cent jump in the number of sales.