While GDP growth should hold up fairly well over the next year, we expect there will be a sharper slowdown than the RBNZ and most analysts are anticipating in 2019 as the impacts of a cooling housing market and slower net migration take full effect. As a result, inflationary pressures will remain fairly muted, which will prevent the RBNZ from raising interest rates until the second half of 2019.
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