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Brian Fallow: Inflation threatens to bite into recovery
Households at risk of slow wage growth combined with rising costs.
NZ banks buy into covered bonds
New Zealand banks have been raising billions of dollars in recent weeks by doing something their Australian parent companies can not yet legally do - issue covered bonds.
<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Tacticians lack vision
John Key and Alan Bollard are the short-term masters of our puny universe of an economy.
Bollard surprised as NZ dollar soars to new high
The New Zealand dollar rose as high as 82.97 US cents in New York overnight, the highest level since the currency...
<i>Brian Fallow :</i> Bollard gives clear signal of 2011 rates move
Alan Bollard has given a pretty clear signal he expects to start raising interest rates before...
<i>Bernard Hickey : </i> Doing nothing while we get poorer
The Reserve Bankdid nothing today, as expected. It did nothing to stop New Zealand's slide in relative poverty.
Metro GlassTech in trouble with its bankers, AFR says
Glass maker Metro GlassTech is the latest heavily indebted overseas private equity owned business to get into strife with its bankers, says one report.
Ambitious Kiwibank eyes Govt contract
Kiwibank has the "ambition" but not the "capability" currently to take on the role of Government bank.
Govt should bank on Kiwibank - Greens
National lacks the courage to tackle Australian banks which have saddled NZ with billions in debt, says Greens co-leader Russel Norman.