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Friday, August 7th 2009, 9:23AM

The drought has been broken.  SBS is the first lender to move its rates in the past month.  Yesterday its hiked its six-month and one-year rates 10 basis points each to 5.60% and 5.70% respectively.

This morning ASB, Bank Direct and Sovereign have gone even further.  They have increased all rates with a duration of 18-months or more and made significant increases.  The biggest increase has been to three-year rates which are up 50 basis points each, four-year rates are up 40 basis points and two and five-year terms are up 30 points each.

ANZ and National Bank have now also followed suite with its own increases to its rates of 18-months or more.

We analyse the move and look at swap rates in this article - SBS raises rates: Will others follow?

Also this morning we have the latest housing confidence survey results from ASB.  You can read them here.

 

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