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2005 Monetary Policy Challenge winner announced
Friday, 12 August 2005, 2:14 pm | Reserve Bank
Nelson College has won the Reserve Bank's 2005 Monetary Policy Challenge school competition. More >>
OCR unchanged at 6.75 per cent
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 9:16 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank has left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 6.75 per cent. More >>
New Bond Lending Facility
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 3:34 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand today announced that, as from 18 July 2005, it will operate a bond lending facility. More >>
June 2005 issue of the Reserve Bank Bulletin
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 3:50 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today released the June 2005 issue of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin. The first article of the Bulletin discusses the outcome of the recent review of New Zealand's 'silver' coinage, which will see the move to smaller and lighter ... More >>
OCR unchanged at 6.75 per cent
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 9:11 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank has left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 6.75 per cent. More >>
Data On Household Financial Assets & Liabilities
Monday, 6 June 2005, 2:49 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank's website tables showing household wealth and financial assets and liabilities since 1978 have been updated to December 2004. New housing value data from Quotable Value raises share of total wealth represented by private dwellings ... More >>
Reserve Bank: Financial Stability Report, May 2005
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 10:39 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today released its Financial Stability Report, a twice-yearly report that assesses the robustness of the New Zealand financial system. More >>
Reserve Bank reinforces last week's statement
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 9:47 am | Reserve Bank
From an address by Dr Alan Bollard Governor Reserve Bank As part of a presentation to a Masterton District Council Business Community Breakfast Meeting More >>
OCR unchanged at 6.75 per cent
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 10:08 am | Reserve Bank
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said: "At the March MPS we expressed concern about the persistence of inflation pressures in the economy which were severely limiting our inflation headroom. We still take that view. While recent indicators have shown ... More >>
March 2005 Reserve Bank Bulletin released
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 4:47 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today released the March 2005 issue of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin. More >>
Changes to New Zealand's 'Silver' coins
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 9:43 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today announced its decisions to modernise New Zealand's silver-coloured coins. After extensive research and careful consideration of the issues, the Reserve Bank said it had decided to follow through with its proposals announced in November ... More >>
Trans-Tasman banking policy harmonisation
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 5:52 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today explained that both the high degree of Australian ownership of New Zealand banking assets, as well as increasing international regulatory requirements, have led to moves to increase global banking policy cooperation. More >>
2005 Monetary Policy Challenge
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:34 am | Reserve Bank
This year the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will once again be hosting the Monetary Policy Challenge. More >>
Implementation of Basel II capital rules
Friday, 18 March 2005, 1:48 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand today announced that it will allow both the "Internal Ratings Based" and "Advanced Measurement" Approaches in the implementation of the Basel II capital framework in New Zealand. The use of these approaches will be available ... More >>
Reserve Bank increases OCR to 6.75 per cent
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 9:15 am | Reserve Bank
Speaking at the release of the Reserve Bank's March 2005 Monetary Policy Statement, Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said: "In our December and January reviews we emphasised that inflation was expected to remain toward the top of the 1 to 3 per ... More >>
20 years of a floating New Zealand dollar
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 12:10 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank noted that this week marks the 20 year anniversary of the float of the New Zealand dollar. More >>
Consolidate Debt To Get Ahead With Finances
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 1:42 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand statistics show that the average Kiwi household now spends $10 out of every $100 of after-tax income just paying interest. This includes interest on credit cards, home loans, and personal loans to name a few. More >>
RBNZ assesses New Zealand's potential growth rate
Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:26 pm | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today emphasised that if we want to see New Zealand's GDP per capita grow at the same rate over the next decade as it did in the previous ten years, we will need to lift our labour productivity. More >>
OCR unchanged at 6.50 per cent
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 10:04 am | Reserve Bank
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said ''As indicated in our last Monetary Policy Statement, we continue to expect that the current policy position will achieve inflation between 1 and 3 per cent on average over the medium term. This outlook assumes that ... More >>
Changes to New Zealand's 'Silver' coins?
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 9:45 am | Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today reminded the public, that the close off date for feedback on the Bank's proposals to modernise New Zealand's 'silver' coloured coins is 4 February 2005. More >>