Quote Originally Posted by winner69 View Post
Goldman Sachs analyst is one of the few sensible analysts around - he says NZ don't need any more rate cuts

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...imb-over-rates
I've been debating this with a few colleagues of late. We all know the guvna is playing currency wars for the exporters, inflation is a lost cause as there's not much of that going around anywhere at the moment.
First glance it looks like cutting below the 3% OCR level has caused the NZD to rally (as seen in below graph)

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However that poses the question, where would the NZD be now if they hadn't have cut further to 2%?

Wheels is in a tough position, reluctantly cutting to keep the currency under control somewhat. Only positive is that the banks are not fully passing on the cut to borrowers/savers so it isn't fueling the housing fire as much.