本帖最后由 金庸大师 于 2021-1-26 20:55 编辑
Global economics research firm Capital Economics has doubled down on forecasts made only a week ago that the Reserve Bank will be the first advanced economy central bank to hike interest rates - and it now additionally sees the RBNZ ending its quantitative easing (QE) programme by the middle of THIS year.
Capital, which in its earlier forecast called for a rise in the Official Cash Rate from the current 0.25% to 0.5% by the end of 2022, now sees THREE OCR hikes by 2023, making for an OCR of 1% by the middle of 2023.It also believes that due to New Zealand's much better than anticipated recovery from the Covid economic crisis, the RBNZ will end both its large scale asset purchases (LSAP) and funding for lending (FLP) programmes by June. It picks a final size of LSAP purchases of around $60 billion - while at this stage the RBNZ is allowing for $100 billion.
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