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A big chunk of the surviving finance company sector is unlikely to outlive the retail deposit guarantee, the Reserve Bank indicated yesterday. Australian parents had "withstood the crisis better than most" overseas, although they remained overly dependent...
Tags: Dr Bollard, Alan Bollard, Bank of New Zealand, current account, RBNZ, U.S, stability report, housing price, Household, account deficit
Dancing With The Stars next year, says it is too expensive in current market conditions
Tags: Australia, New Zealand, exchange market, foreign exchange, Dr Bollard, Alan Bollard
Kiwi soaring again Thursday October 22, 07:23 AM The prospect of higher interest rates appears to have pushed the kiwi higher. The New Zealand dollar tipped over the 76 US cent mark in overnight trade...The hike comes after Reserve Bank Governor Alan...
Tags: Statistics New Zealand, Alan Bollard, Radio New Zealand, governor alan, zealanders dollar, Reserve Bank, NZPA, Radio NZ, Dr Bollard, select committee
In his announcement today, Bollard also repeated his message that the Reserve Bank continued to expect the OCR to remain at or below current levels until the latter part of 2010. He focused on risks to the present "patchy" recovery posed by the rise of...
Tags: Dr Alan Bollard, Dr Bollard, New Zealand, cash rate, Reserve Bank, OCR, NZPA, RBNZ, NZD, official cash
NZ business confidence continues to climb, driven by optimism in construction August 31 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand business confidence continued to improve in August amid a resurgent construction sector and stabilising property market. A net 34% of...
Tags: ANZ National Bank Ltd, New Zealand, NZPA, Alan Bollard, Dr Bollard, nz dollar, GPG, Reserve Bank of Australia, governor alan, RBA
The Government has discussed expanding Kiwibank amid calls for it to beef up the state-owned bank to help push interest rates lower. Kiwibank spokesman Bruce Thompson confirmed discussions had taken place between Kiwibank parent company NZ Post and the...
Tags: Kiwibank, select committee, New Zealand, NZ Post, Dr Bollard, expenditure select
He cut the official cash rate from 3 to 2.5 per cent and left the door open for further easing. And, crucially, he added an explicit and quantified explanation of what he meant a month ago when he said he expected interest rates to remain low for an extended...
Tags: New Zealand, Reserve Bank, screen production, cash rate, TVNZ, NZPA, Dr Bollard, BNZ Capital, Alan Bollard
The Reserve Bank must commit to keeping interest rates low for a long period after an expected 50-basis-point cut to the official cash rate on Thursday, economists say. The bank is widely expected to cut official interest rates from 3 per cent to 2.5...
Tags: Reserve Bank, Dr Bollard, reserve banks, Alan Bollard, cash rate
Home loan customers probably missed the "bargain of a lifetime" on long-term mortgage rates, after a multibillion-dollar borrowing frenzy in the past few weeks, some economists say. But floating mortgage rates are likely to fall further and stay down,...
Tags: Kiwibank Bruce Thompson, mortgage rate, reserve banks, ANZ Institutional Bank, NZPA, Dr Bollard, banks governor
Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard is putting the boot into banks, oil companies and food firms for not bringing down prices as much as they should. In an unusual and pointed attack, Dr Bollard also told power companies not to keep pushing up prices...
Tags: Dr Bollard, food price, banks governor, reserve banks, Alan Bollard, Allan Bollard, governor alan, Statistics New Zealand, Reserve Bank, local authorities