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No rate relief this week: Economists
With inflation a continuing problem, Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard is likely to hold interest rates at current high levels, despite an increasingly uncertain outlook for world growth and drought dampening agricultural production.
Rates still on the rise
Mortgage rates are continuing to rise without any prompting from the Reserve Bank.
BNZ mortgage market shares steady in Dec quarter
Bank of New Zealand's share of the mortgage market was steady in the December quarter last year, although its profitability fell compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Lombard won't necessarily know of difficulties
Listed finance company Lombard Group's mortgage broking operations won't necessarily be aware if clients, gained through the businesses bought from Blue Chip last year, are in financial difficulty, says Lombard managing director Michael Reeves.
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