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Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the Reserve Bank’s repo rate will remain unchanged “for now”.

Though the Fed didn’t raise rates this month, Heidi Richardson explains how to potentially prepare your bond portfolio for the rate regime change. The Fed has been reluctant to shake the boat in the wake of the financial crisis, fearing it could scare off investors and stun...

The Reserve Bank today published a report detailing how it estimates New Zealand’s neutral interest rate. The time for a further 25-bps rate cut is appropriate now.

“The MPC has decided unanimously to keep the repurchase rate unchanged for now at 6% per annum”.

“Asset classes like gold are still expensive and they are fundamentally likely to suffer if US rates go up, if the dollar remain strong“, Manpreet Gill, head of fixed income, currency and commodities investment strategy at Standard Chartered Plc, said in an interview...

Yao said the Fed should set objective conditions that will trigger a rate hike, such as inflation, unemployment and risks of property and housing bubbles.

Wiliams said that although the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had voted to hold rates at last week’s meeting, it was a close call and he expected a rate rise later this year. Both said they expected a hike this year. “As we have outlined, the domestic economy...

Higher rates could dent demand for non-interest paying bullion, while boosting the dollar. Prices jumped as much as 1.3 per cent to $US1,133.93, the highest since September 3.

Commodity prices were broadly flat on Tuesday, with silver softer than gold prices and re-touching last Friday’s 2-week low at $14.30 per ounce.