Economy / News
Economy / News
12th Feb 26, 7:25am
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Financial markets sceptical of US jobs report; US budget deficit to get much worse; China faces return of deflation; Australia gets borrowing surge; UST 10yr at 4.17%; gold up, oil up; NZ$1 = 60.6 USc; TWI-5 = 63.9
Property / Analysis
Property / Analysis
12th Feb 26, 7:00am
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by Greg Ninness
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Strong annual growth in rental activity in final quarter of 2025, but rents were softer overall
Currencies / Opinion
Currencies / Opinion
12th Feb 26, 9:59am
by Guest
Erin Lockwood considers whether recent developments could threaten the greenback's hegemonic status
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Banking / News
Banking / News
12th Feb 26, 10:03am
CEO Vittoria Shortt says when ASB finds issues it works with regulators to fix them as interim results highlight 3 court cases against the bank
Currencies / Analysis
Currencies / Analysis
12th Feb 26, 7:55am
by Jason Wong
Stronger than expected US labour market figures all round - payrolls up 130k, unemployment rate drops to 4.3%. Market pares expected rate cuts this year, US Treasuries curve flattens
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Personal Finance / Analysis
9th Feb 26, 10:33am
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Term deposit rates are moving off their recent lows with 4%+ rates starting to spread. Surprisingly the major banks are at the forefront of the rises
Personal Finance / Analysis
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9th Feb 26, 8:04am
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ASB comes back again for more mortgage rate rises. Kiwibank also raises rates. They also adjusted TD rates up, but only to rivals' levels
Economy / Analysis
5th Feb 26, 2:49pm
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ASB economists stress the importance of studying 'high frequency' economic data at a time when our official GDP figures are both lagged and containing less reliable data than they did
Personal Finance / Analysis
10th Feb 26, 3:56pm
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Latest Reserve Bank figures show a big change in preference for home owners in December, with floating mortgages pushed to the sidelines and longer term fixed rate mortgages coming to the fore
Economy / News
11th Feb 26, 1:14pm
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In their forthcoming first economic outlook for the year, Westpac's economists now think there will be SIX hikes of the OCR during next year as the current excess capacity in the economy is swallowed up more quickly than earlier expected
Economy / News
9th Feb 26, 1:57pm
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BNZ economists think the Reserve Bank will start to raise interest rates in the third quarter of this year but won't want to signpost that yet in its first Official Cash Rate review for the year next week
Public Policy / Opinion
6th Feb 26, 10:12am
51
On the cusp of Waitangi Day, Hipkins offers 90s nostalgia, Luxon offers management jargon. Neither are ready for the complexity politics actually demands, Natalia Albert argues
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