Alan Bollard

...20, instituting a 2 per cent tax on new money entering the country to invest in these asset classes. Our own Reserve Bank governor, Alan Bollard, has had to restrict himself to rare and secretive forays into the currency markets and...

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...designed to produce a stable and competitive exchange rate, nor to keep interest rates as low as possible.'' Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard has kept the official cash rate at a record-low 2.5 per cent since April. Still, the New...

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...the floating rate to rise by about 3 percentage points by the end of 2011. Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard has repeatedly said he would not begin lifting the official interest rate till the second half of next year. Economists...

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...new "mates", as National's most purist of finance ministers, Ruth Richardson, used to say. The RBNZ's governor and deputy governor, Alan Bollard and Grant Spencer, outlined more new thinking in their report and in testimony to the finance...

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...jawboning By Paul McBeth Nov. 11 (BusinessWire) - The New Zealand dollar held above 74 U.S. cents after central bank Governor Alan Bollard said the resilient currency has hindered an export-led recovery needed to rebalance the nation's...

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WARNING: Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard warned of the need to avoid a return to a "debt-fuelled housing cycle", as the bank published its Financial Stability Report. Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard warned of the need to avoid a...

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...misplaced confidence that the local economy will keep up with the cranking pace across the Tasman, according to Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard. The immediate prospects for New Zealand and Australia "are different," Bollard told a...

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...report skilled staff shortages New Zealand is not Australia, but it could be their lucky neighbour, according to Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard. Financial markets and businesses need to appreciate the different futures New Zealand and...

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...money because they don't appreciate the difference between the New Zealand and Australian economies, according to Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard. Job and investment opportunities likely from aquaculture Vehicle registrations up 1.6pc...

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UPDATE: NZ's Bollard keeps OCR unchanged, drops wording rates could fall further Oct. 29 (BusinessWire) - Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard kept the official cash rate unchanged at a record low 2.5%, as expected, and dropped wording in his...

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