Article tagged with 'Reserve Bank'
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Life and health: a tale of two sectors
05 Nov 2025 - The Reserve Bank’s Financial Stability Report shows life and health insurance going in wildly different directions on profitability and premiums.
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Mortgage defaults improve while lending rises
02 Sep 2025 - Non-performing housing loans plunged by $55 million in July just as new mortgage lending was 24.4% higher in the quarter than a year ago.
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Year of the refix
22 Aug 2025 - Average house prices around New Zealand have fallen for five months in a row now despite mortgage interest rates falling over 2% from this time a year ago.
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Re-fixing holdouts may have had the right strategy as RBNZ turns dovish
21 Aug 2025 - Mortgage holders who have been hanging out on short-term fixed rates, hoping that longer-term rates still had further to fall, may be proven to have had the right strategy.
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RBNZ cuts OCR to 3%, sees it bottoming at 2.5% in the March 2026 qtr
20 Aug 2025 - The Reserve Bank is expecting higher inflation and unemployment and lower economic growth and is also expecting to cut its official cash rate (OCR) twice more to bottom out at 2.5%.
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Green light burning brightly for August interest rate cut
22 Jul 2025 - Another cut to the OCR next month is now as close to a done deal as can be the case, the BNZ says.
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Interest rates could drop, house prices increase as people age
16 Jul 2025 - An ageing population is expected to continue putting downward pressure on neutral interest rates and house prices could increase, a RBNZ briefing paper reveals.
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RBNZ expects 4.5% house price growth in 2025
30 May 2025 - The Reserve Bank is expecting house prices in New Zealand to rise about 4.5% this year but that’s a much more modest increase than has been the case historically, according to RBNZ assistant governor for money Karen Silk.
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RBNZ does a u-turn on bank capital requirements
01 Apr 2025 - The Reserve Bank has bowed to pressure from the Commerce Commission, the banks and submitters to parliament’s banking inquiry and will conduct a review of its bank capital requirements.
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Adrian Orr departs RBNZ still congratulating himself
05 Mar 2025 - [Opinion] Adrian Orr’s surprise resignation as Reserve Bank governor three years before his current five-year term ends will be celebrated by many observers and likely every Australian-owned bank chief executive and all their senior officers and directors.