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![Inflation set to push interest rates up](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Inflation set to push interest rates up
Lift in OCR tipped for as soon as September after prices rise 5.3pc.
![Inflation hits families where it hurts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Inflation hits families where it hurts
Here's proof of the pain everyone is feeling ... prices are rising at fastest.
![Economy shows surprising muscle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Economy shows surprising muscle
GDP growth twice as strong as forecasters picked despite earthquake
![Economy surges - GDP up 0.8pc](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Economy surges - GDP up 0.8pc
New Zealand's economy kicked off 2011 with a bang, growing at twice the forecast pace and the fastest since December 2009 as a resurgent manufacturing sector drove the nation's revival in the face of Canterbury's earthquakes.
![Treasury more pessimistic on economic growth than market](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Treasury more pessimistic on economic growth than market
The Treasury is more downbeat about economic growth figures this week, saying it expects gross domestic product grew 0.3% in the first three months of the year.
![NZ economy tipped to have grown quickly this year](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
NZ economy tipped to have grown quickly this year
New Zealand's economy probably grew at the fastest pace in four quarters in the first three months of 2011, say economists.
![Inside Money: Account portability exciting, Dutch claim](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Inside Money: Account portability exciting, Dutch claim
Excited about bank account number portability?
![Brian Fallow: NZ safer than Greece but the risk is real](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Brian Fallow: NZ safer than Greece but the risk is real
The danger in that case would be that, as in the global financial crisis three years ago, everyone in the market starts looking sideways at their counterparts and worrying about how much they might be exposed.
![Liam Dann: Double downer casts long shadow](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Liam Dann: Double downer casts long shadow
Ash clouds and fresh quakes boost the need for strong leadership.
![Brian Fallow: Inflation threatens to bite into recovery](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Brian Fallow: Inflation threatens to bite into recovery
Households at risk of slow wage growth combined with rising costs.
![<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Tacticians lack vision](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Tacticians lack vision
John Key and Alan Bollard are the short-term masters of our puny universe of an economy.