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Savers in bank deposits are not sharing in higher rates
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (628+ words) Despite the Reserve Bank wanting them to, banks are not raising their term deposit rates. At least, not significantly. On Monday Kiwibank raised its six month and one year rates by five basis points (bps). Tiny occasional shifts are the…...
Breakfast briefing: The cost of money has just jumped
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (769+ words) Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news bond prices and equity prices are falling as oil prices have jumped, and markets now see a much larger chance the US Fed will have to…...
China's permanent manufacturing revolution
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (329+ words) China’s huge trade surplus, now running at over US$1 trillion per year, poses important macroeconomic and trade-policy issues, which were recently addressed in a valuable Project Syndicate compendium. But aside from short-term policy choices, it is also vital to understand…...
Breakfast briefing: Central banks realise they have to get more serious in the inflation fight
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (568+ words) Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news inflation is high and rising around the world and central banks are confronting a change in priorities to get it under control. Their slow action is…...
Breakfast briefing: Eyes on global inflation
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (817+ words) Here's our summary of key economic events over the weekend that affect New Zealand, with news we are heading into a week that will deliver a wide set of consumer and producer inflation reports. They will also release August PPI…...
Are banks beginning to party like it's 2012 again with low equity home loans?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1762+ words) Against the backdrop of a soft housing market, banks' low equity housing lending is surging, both as a percentage of overall new lending, and within the big five home lenders' individual loan books. Figures from the major banks latest general…...
The US Fed and the US Treasury are in denial
2+ week, 1+ day ago (183+ words) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s explanation for his recent attempt to reduce yields on long-term US Treasuries added to the confusion: “We are trying to keep the market in equilibrium.” (Predictably, his intervention failed.) The sooner that both the Fed…...
Kiwi Bond interest rates raised
2+ week, 5+ day ago (101+ words) Savers who use the Treasury's Kiwi Bond offers will want to know they have raised the interest rate on them, and notably, their first rise in three years, and the first change since March 2026 They have added between +25 bps and…...
Retail beef mince price continues upward march
3+ week, 3+ day ago (786+ words) Content supplied by Rabobank. New Zealand consumers are now paying more for beef mince than ever before, with the average retail price now sitting well north of $24 per kilo. And with export demand for Kiwi trim beef (mince) expected to…...
The return of fiscal primacy
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1656+ words) Global economic and geopolitical regime change from the market state to state capitalism has been underway for the past several years, and is accelerating and intensifying. Macro policy is a core domain on which this global regime change will play…...