let s get down to business. an australian firm recharge industries has come to the rescue and bought the battery maker britishvolt out of administration. the deal is expected to be announced shortly. britishvolt had plans to build a £4 billion gigafactory near the port of blyth in northumberland, but it ran out of money and collapsed last month. its downfall was blamed on a lack of battery experience, unproven technology, and therefore no customers oi’ revenue. the new owner is another start up. recharge industries is owned and run by a new york based investment fund called scale facilitation. its australian chief executive, david collard, told our business editor simonjack why his company was different. what we re bringing, which is different to the prior britishvolt, is we re bringing validated technology. so that process has already started. us defence has also validated the technology, it s actually already supplied to the uk navy through a subcontractor over here.
Today's RBNZ update leaves us comfortable for now with our forecast of a first policy easing in February next year, followed by only gradual policy easing thereafter. Future inflation data will be key in driving our OCR view with the risk that easing comes later than currently expected.
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Expectations have fluctuated wildly in New Zealand since the RBNZ November Monetary Policy Statement. Back then the RBNZ surprised almost all with the threat of further tightening in 2024 if inflation pressures didn't recede fast enough. Central to their thesis was concern that: