Growing pressure on RBNZ to join rate cutting club

Last week’s news that the unemployment rate in New Zealand is not falling as widely expected and is rising as we thought it might has added to the pressure on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to follow its Australian counterpart in cutting interest rates. We suspect it will cave in later this year.   

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