Put RBNZ Conway’s speech on your calendar

Put RBNZ Conway’s speech on your calendar
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Rebecca Howard
Reserve Bank chief economist Paul Conway will make a speech on Jan 30 that could offer some insight into the central bank’s plans for the official cash rate. The speech, which will be livestreamed, will include “brief comments on domestic data developments since the November Monetary Policy Statement,” the central bank (RBNZ) said on its website. The official cash rate is 5.5% after an aggressive string of rate hikes aimed at cooling inflation and engineering and economic slowdown.Inflation is easing and some ec...

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