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Borrowers likely to see home loan rates rise this week
Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard is likely to start hiking interest rates this week even though the housing market and consumer spending remain subdued and Europe's sovereign debt woes are pushing up banks' cost of borrowing.
If you like certainty, fix.
Borrowers could still toss a coin between floating or fixing, however BNZ economist Tony Alexander says he likes certainty, so if pressed he would probably fix two years knowing nothing he could do would stop him being hit at some stage by high ...
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