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But as the shock inflation figure of 3.3 per cent released on Friday made clear, the comparative success of New Zealand’s Covid response – measured in lack of deaths, a relatively free and open economy and a strong recovery growth rate – has come at a cost.
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House prices are reaching record highs in nearly every region The Covid response of every nation around the world has come at a cost: be it in lives, loss of individual liberties, reduced economic output. In New Zealand, the costs have been more prosaic: a massive spike in property prices (the median house price has shot up nearly 29 per cent to $820,000 in the past year) an overheated housing and residential construction market and a closed border fuelling skills shortages and leaving the economy without the fillip the comparatively high level of pre-Covid migration used to deliver.
2021-07-15 02:05:28 GMT2021-07-15 10:05:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WELLINGTON, July 15 (Xinhua) New Zealand s central bank announced in a statement to reduce the current stimulatory level of monetary settings in order to meet its consumer price and employment objectives over the medium-term.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will halt additional asset purchases under the Large Scale Asset Purchase (LSAP) program by July 23, 2021. The Committee will keep the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 0.25 percent and the Funding for Lending Programme unchanged, the Reserve Bank s Monetary Policy Committee said on Wednesday.
The committee said the global economic outlook continues to improve, providing ongoing price support for New Zealand s export commodities. Global monetary and fiscal settings remain at accommodative levels supporting the recovery in economic activity. Rising vaccination rates across many countries are providing further economic impetus. However, the need to reinsta
U.S. Dollar Drops As Fed Chair Powell Says Labor Market Recovery “still A Ways Off” The U.S. dollar slipped against its major opponents in the European session on Wednesday, as expectations over a faster monetary policy tightening receded after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell remarked that “substantial further progress” towards employment and price stability goals is “still a ways off.”
The Fed will ensure that monetary policy will continue to deliver powerful support to the economy until the recovery is complete, Powell said in his prepared remarks for testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
Powell acknowledged that the labor market conditions have continued to improve, but there is still a long way to go.
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