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Inflation expectations push lower in RBNZ survey
By Rebecca Howard Aug. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Business managers and finance professionals lowered their inflation expectations in the latest Reserve Bank survey. Respondents to the central bank's quarterly survey predict consumer price inflation of 1.71 percent a year from now...
Finance
Solid jobs numbers won't sway RBNZ - economists
By Rebecca Howard Aug. 6 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand’s unemployment rate hit an 11-year low, but economists say the data won’t put off tomorrow’s widely expected rate cut and most say it doesn’t change anything down the track. The central bank is expected to cut rates by 2...
Policy
Rural WISPs fret about being crowded out of 5G spectrum auction
By Jenny Ruth Aug. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Wireless internet service providers to the rural sector are worried that Vodafone and other mobile phone companies pushing to get 5G services up and running will crowd them out of the market. “Vodafone and its competitors are putting pr...
Policy
2Degrees: still plenty of growth at the 10 year mark, says new ceo
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 5 (BusinessDesk) - Some said it couldn't be done. Some expected 2Degrees - New Zealand's third largest mobile telecommunications operator - would die on the vine as it simultaneously squeezed margin out of the Vodafone-Spark market stranglehold whil...
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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