Capital Economics

The leading macroeconomic research consultancy

Emerging Asia Economics Update

Emerging Asia Economics Update

New Zealand to keep policy rates unchanged for longer

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) left the cash rate at 3.0% earlier today, as expected. What’s more, the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) was downbeat, yet again. We have adjusted our forecast and now anticipate that the cash rate will move up from mid-2011, rather than in Q1. However, we continue to expect that the cash rate will be lifted to 4.0-5.0% by mid-2012, which is higher than the RBNZ and the markets currently anticipate.

Access to the full article is restricted to Capital Economics clients only.

If you are a client, please log in below to view this article.

Not a client?

To become a client, take a FREE Trial to receive information on services available from Capital Economics.

> Find out more
Close

Capital Economics

The leading macroeconomic research consultancy

The selected article is from our PUBLICATION NAME HERE publication, which is available as part of our SERVICE NAME HERE service.

SERVICE NAME HERE

SERVICE NAME HERE

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam tortor lacus, fringilla eget vehicula id, sodales at felis. Phasellus porttitor nibh et nisi tempor viverra. Nullam sapien est, varius ut porta vitae, dignissim varius.

> Find out more