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Pattrick Smellie: Memo to the energy minister from ex-Genesis CEO
New Zealand is strangely unwilling to shake up its existing electricity market arrangements to stop coal prices making renewable energy more expensive than it needs to be, argues departing Genesis Energy CEO.
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Jenny Ruth: Reserve Bank stress test shows more bank capital is unneccesary
The costs of the additional capital the banks must hold could result in higher interest rates and lower economic growth.
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NZ banks sail through stress test – again
The banks would still have more than the minimum required capital in the “severe but plausible” scenario the Reserve Bank asked them to model.
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