Further policy tightening may still prove necessary. Certainly, there remains no prospect of a cut in the foreseeable future.
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There's inflation activity in the system, there's cost and wage pressures in the system, and we need to see that abate before we're prepared to see interest rates come off.Alan Bollard
The decline in the exchange rate will either be gradual, as domestic spending pressures ease, or it will be more abrupt as global investors reassess New Zealand as an investment destination.
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The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in housing, credit growth and domestic spending, ... We also expect a significantly lower exchange rate.
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That's why we will keep making these warnings and if necessary take further action, ... can increase interest rates and we can do it in a way that really hurts.
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We now see the exchange rate as exceptionally high, and in some respects this is unjustifiable. In time, it will fall. Investors who think that the New Zealand dollar only goes up will be set for disappointment.
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