Daily Commentary
Friday 3 Feb 2012
More fixed rate cuts
We have had a raft of changes yesterday including cuts from Kiwibank and Westpac. Details here.
Previous commentary
Next banks to move - Thursday 2 Feb 2012 Do we have the best way of setting the OCR? - Wednesday 1 Feb 2012 Bollard casts off from bank - Monday 30 Jan 2012 Not all rates down - Saturday 28 Jan 2012 ASB cuts 1 to 5 year fixed home loan rates - Friday 27 Jan 2012 Down they come - Thursday 26 Jan 2012 Another bank cuts rates - Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 [UPDATED] Perky housing market may force rate hike - Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 Where to for the OCR? - Monday 23 Jan 2012 ANZ National cut rates - Friday 20 Jan 2012 Fixed rates bottomed: Westpac - Thursday 19 Jan 2012 Don't expect any OCR increases soon - Wednesday 18 Jan 2012 BNZ sees little change in OCR this year - Tuesday 17 Jan 2012 Downgrade the big news - Monday 16 Jan 2012 Kiwibank starts year aggressively - Thursday 12 Jan 2012 First change for the year - Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 The first for 2012 - Monday 9 Jan 2012 Tuesday 3 Jan 2012 Merry Christmas - Thursday 27 Dec 2012 Quietness at a busy time - Wednesday 26 Dec 2012 Kiwibank special goes - Tuesday 25 Dec 2012 Another quiet week ends - Friday 21 Dec 2012 Which banks grew their home loan books? - Thursday 20 Dec 2012 A new way of rate setting - Wednesday 19 Dec 2012 NZF deal done - Tuesday 18 Dec 2012 A quiet start - for some - Monday 17 Dec 2012 Interest rates on hold until at least the second half of 2012 - Friday 14 Dec 2012 Bank gives little away on rates - Thursday 13 Dec 2012 Get rid of RFAs: Tate - Wednesday 12 Dec 2012
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Future interest rate hikes softened

The Reserve Bank has kept the OCR at 2.50% as expected, but had lowered its forecast track for the 90 day bill rate by around 60 basis points (0.6%) to a peak of 4.30% by the end of next year.
For borrowers that means floating home loans are not forecast to rise as much as previously forecast. In June the expectation was that the rates would rise 2% in the next 12 months: that figure has now been wound back to 1.4%.
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