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04 October 2019

What's happening across the ditch

The biggest conversation in the market right now is around the OCR. Will it keep going down? Is it because of low business confidence? Will mortgage rates keep going down?

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02 October 2019

Chinese banks setting the new standard

The Chinese bank ICBC is the latest to sharpen its home loan rate with 3.18% for one year, 18 months and two years fixed.

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01 October 2019

OCR expected to drop to 0.5

The latest NZIER quarterly survey of business opinions suggest that GDP could fall below 1% later this year.

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27 September 2019

3.49% is now the new norm

Kiwibank has announced their two-year fixed term today to be 3.49% as of Monday the 30th September. This is following BNZ’s announcement a week ago and Westpac and ASB's decision a couple of days later.

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