Graeme Wheeler didn’t go out with a bang at his last policy meeting as Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as interest rates were left at 1.75% for the ninth month in a row. But he stressed more strongly than before that rates are unlikely to rise until late in 2019 and he also took one last shot at the strong dollar. We suspect the dollar will eventually weaken from US$0.74 now to below US$0.70.
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