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• Westpac hikes 6 mth, 2 yr mortgage rates; leaves variable unchanged

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Westpac has hiked its six month and two year mortgage rates by 10 and 21 basis points (bps), respectively, but left its variable rates on hold. Westpac’s new six month mortgage rate is 5.59%, and its new two year rate is 7.2%. The new six month rate is still the lowest offered by the major banks in New Zealand, ...
  14 hours ago

• Opinion: Kiwi$ gets strong support from perceived RBNZ interest rate tightening cycle

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  By Mike Jones The NZD was the strongest performing currency last week. After mooching around a 0.7050-0.7180 range for most of the week, the RBNZ statement on Thursday provided the NZD with fresh impetus for a gallop back towards 0.7300. Not only did the RBNZ paint a positively rosy outlook for NZ, but it is now ...
  1 day ago

• Dont panic, its alright, its only a paper loss

  
  No Minister — Authority: 550
  Ive been following iPredict and opened a small account a few months back: $100. Its pocket money really, but I just wanted to give it a go after observing it for a while. My $100 was quickly turned into $148. I then gambled a little by putting most of it on one prediction: the OCR to be increased any time before 1 ...
  3 days ago

• Alan Bollard talks to the Finance and Expenditure Committee about monetary policy, the OCR’s effectiveness and the NZ economy

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard appears before Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following the RBNZ’s December Monetary Policy Statement.
  4 days ago

• RBNZ’s Bollard talks at MPS press conference about the rates outlook, house prices, mortgage rates and Christmas

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Here is the full press conference at the Reserve Bank in Wellington on December 10, 2009 following the release of the RBNZ’s December quarter Monetary Policy Statement. The Reserve Bank left the Official Cash Rate at 2.5%, but indicated that it may be prepared to increase the rate around the middle of 2010, as ...
  4 days ago

• Opinion: Kiwi$ strong as markets pick first rate hike on March 11, OCR at 4.5% by end of 2010

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  By Danica Hampton As widely expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged at 2.50% yesterday. However, the tone of the accompanying statement was a bit more hawkish than what we, and the market, were expecting. Not only did the RBNZ paint a positively rosy outlook for NZ (where growth jumps to 3% in 2010 and then to ...
  4 days ago

• 90 seconds at 9am: NZ$ near 73USc; Butter price record; New Chinese real estate tax

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Bernard Hickey details the key news overnight in 90 seconds at 9am, including news the New Zealand dollar rose to almost 73 USc this morning from just 70.8 USc before yesterday’s announcement from the RBNZ it would look at hiking the Official Cash Rate from the middle of 2010, which was slightly earlier than ...
  4 days ago

• Boingo Review; Web Clipping for Dummies; Firefox Password Manager; Dymo Stamps Review; OmniPage Versus ABBYY FineReader

  
  TechnoLawyer Blog — Authority: 422
  Coming today to Answers to Questions : Jason Havens reviews Boingos WiFi hotspot service, Jonathan Warshay shares two tips for saving Web pages on a PC or Mac, Tom Trottier explains how he uses Firefox to manage passwords, Mark Fellman reviews DYMO Stamps, and Steve Loewy compares OmniPage and ABBYY FineReader Pro. ...
  4 days ago

• Special report: Bernard Hickey analyses the Monetary Policy Statement

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Bernard Hickey analyses the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement following Alan Bollard’s press conference at the Reserve Bank in Wellington.
  5 days ago

• Live blog from RBNZ Governor Alan Bollard before parliamentary committee (Updated)

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard is appearing before Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee after he delivered the December Quarter Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), in which he kept the Official Cash Rate at 2.5% and said he may hike the rate from the middle of 2010. This was slightly earlier than ...
  5 days ago

• RBNZ’s Bollard says house price inflation unlikely to create debt-fuelled consumption boom this time

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  It’s different this time. That’s the message from Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard at this morning’s press conference after his decision to leave the Official Cash Rate on hold at a record low 2.5% until the middle of 2010. Bollard said consumers were being much more careful about taking on more debt to go on ...
  5 days ago

• RBNZ sees annual house price inflation hitting 12%, before easing back to 2%

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has forecast annual house price inflation will hit 12% by the March quarter of next year before easing back as the combined effects of weak credit growth and poor affordability take some heat out of the market. The Reserve Bank said it was relying for now on higher long term market ...
  5 days ago

• RBNZ holds OCR at 2.5%, but Bollard inserts wiggle room for 2010 rate hike

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  The Reserve Bank has left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) on hold at 2.5%, but has brought forward slightly its expectation of lifting the rate in 2010. Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard gave himself some wiggle room by saying that a rate hike was possible around the middle of 2010, which appears slightly earlier than ...
  5 days ago

• BNZ, TSB hike six month mortgage rates ahead of RBNZ OCR decision

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  BNZ has raised its six month mortgage rates in a move that takes them above the bank’s lowest variable rate. Fixed mortgage rates have been rising in recent months, while variable rates have been stable as the Reserve Bank keeps the Official Cash Rate at its record low of 2.5%. BNZ raised its Standard and Fly Buys ...
  6 days ago

• Google Goggles for Android Mobile Phones

  
  Marketing Technology Blog — Authority: 118
  Thanks to Nat Finn for the heads up tonight at the Lafayette Tweetup . Google is putting the finishing touches on Google Goggles. This appears to be the same technology as Layar spotted oversees back in the summer. The applications for this technology appear endless. This post was written by Douglas ...
  1 week ago

• Opinion: Will the next Trans-Tasman exodus be term deposit savings?

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  By Bernard Hickey New Zealanders talk and worry a lot about the exodus of our best and brightest people across the Tasman, but the next exodus may be of term deposit savings chasing higher interest rates in Australia. The authorities were worried enough about a potential exodus to Australia in the those dark days ...
  1 week ago

• OCR on iPhone demo

  
  exploration — Authority: 103
  i finally got around to building a proof of concept implementation of tesseract-ocr for the iPhone. months ago, i documented the steps which helped to get the library cross-compiled for the iPhone’s ARM processor, and how to build a fat library for use with the simulator as well. several folks have helped ...
  1 week ago

• Opinion: US$ strengthens vs NZ$ on talk Fed may hike early

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  By Danica Hampton NZD/USD spent most of Friday night trading within a 0.7140-0.7280 range. The NZD/USD opened the offshore session near 0.7250 and hit its highs immediately after the US non-farm payrolls report. The surprisingly strong US employment report (payrolls fell just 11,000 in November, well below the ...
  1 week ago

• Download Free PDF to Word Document converter

  
  Blogsolute — Authority: 432
  I tried lots of pdf to word converter softwares, but this one is one of the best software. Because it is very simple, small and quick. You can easily convert pdf files to word in less then 1 minute. This software needs no expertise. Just open the pdf file in this word converter and click on the “Convert” button ...
  1 week ago

• OCR software demoed on the Samsung Omnia 2

  
  WMPoweruser.com — Authority: 151
  The Samsung Omnia 2 comes with a pretty good software bundle. One of the apps is Smartreader, which goes beyond just reading business cards to reading full text.  This video by CareAce.net shows the software in action and it seems pretty accurate. See more Omnia 2 coverage at CareAce.net here .
  1 week ago

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