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NZ mortgage rates too high, says WestpacTrust
New Zealanders are paying about $50 a month more on a standard $100,000 20-year mortgage than Australians are for no good economic reason, says WestpacTrust.
RB leaves rates unchanged
As expected, Reserve Bank governor Don Brash left the official cash rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.75%, acknowledging both the strength of the domestic economy and the worsening outlook for the global economy.
Cut-rate conveyancer calls it quits
Key Law, a cut rate conveyancing joint venture between ANZ Bank, the Public Trust and Key Law principal Philip Alexander-Crawford, is being wound up after just a year.
Bank economists all over the place
Picking which way the Reserve Bank will go with interest rates on Wednesday is anyone's guess, Rob Hosking says.
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