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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 2h

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Thursday; OCR pass-through distorted, spring listing rush, hopeful glimmers in card activity, more savings, lower share of GDP, weak tax-take mirrors economy, swaps on hold, NZD recovers, & more

What happened today

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 3h

📢 The encryption breaking and privacy busting "Chat Control" device scanning measure looks set to fail in EU, after Germany opposed it

Europe’s war on encryption continues

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 3h

📢 New Zealand’s fiscal health improved after Budget 2024 but tax cuts kept operating deficits open, full Financial Statements show

Tax cuts keep Crown accounts treading water

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/135614/new-zealand’s-fiscal-health-improved-after-budget-2024-tax-cuts-kept-operating

Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 3h

📢 NZ Govt Bond Tender #966; Tender Date 9 Oct 2025

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Govt Bond tender number 966 results

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 3h

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; Ryman leads gainers with Scales, Kathmandu and Gentrack. Tourism Holdings, Vista, PFI and Argosy weigh on the NZX50

Daily NZX update, Thursday, October 9, 2025

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 4h

📢 Financial statements for the year ended June show an improvement in the Government’s fiscal position, even as the Coalition’s preferred deficit measure worsened

Crown accounts show fiscal health improved as capital projects were slashed

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/135614/financial-statements-year-ended-june-show-improvement-government’s-fiscal

Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 4h

📢 'These are likely to be large': After years of 'raiding the environmental piggy bank', the environment is sending New Zealand invoices, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says

‘Our economy is a subset of the environment, not vice versa’

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 8h

📢 Dambisa Moyo worries a new culture of reckless financial betting could trigger a crisis and undermine future growth

How much financial speculation can the real economy withstand?

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 8h

📢 Trade Me Property listings up 24% in September from August giving prospective buyers plenty of choice

New listings surge on Trade Me Property for the start of spring

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 10h

📢 US equities have recovered after their one-day dip, with investors disregarding warnings of a developing AI bubble. The NZD recovers a lot of its loss after the RBNZ’s dovish 50bps cut. OIS market prices in a full 25bps cut for November

The NZD recovers after its OCR hit

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 11h

📢 American data weakens quite quickly but it is not holding back financial markets; Japan business sentiment up; Taiwan inflation down; China back from holiday; UST 10yr at 4.14%; gold and oil up; NZ$1 = 57.8 USc; TWI-5 = 65.4

Breakfast briefing: The froth gets frothier

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 13h

📢 Sharesies teams up with Mastercard to offer debit card where people can earn money that goes into their investments

Sharesies and Mastercard launch debit card that 'invests while you spend'

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 13h

📢 Reserve Bank signals it sees little risk of inflation and a willingness to stamp out any economic underperformance as it continues to cut interest rates

The RBNZ has zero tolerance for economic slack

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 ANZ is the first mover after the -50 bps OCR cut, passing on -40 bps to floating rate borrowers

Tracking the mortgage rate changes following the OCR cut

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Tracking the changes to savings accounts after the OCR rate cut, including the Notice Savers

Savings account rates over 2% about to disappear after the OCR cut

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Wednesday; Jumbo OCR cut has banks reassessing rate cut size, rents slip but investors more active, dairy prices slip, NZX50 rises, swaps drop, gold up, NZD falls hard, & more

What happened today

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; Mixed Day on the NZX50: Kathmandu, Oceania, Property for Industry, and Summerset lead gainers, Gentrack, Vital Healthcare, F&P Healthcare, and Tourism Holdings lead decliners

Daily NZX update, Day, October 8, 2025

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 The Reserve Bank slashed the Official Cash Rate to 2.50% to bolster faith in an economic recovery that seems to have stalled over the past six months

RBNZ opts for JUMBO cut to protect recovery

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 People's homes, jobs plus the fisheries and aquaculture sectors are at growing risk as climate change and human activity puts pressure on New Zealand's oceans and coasts, report says

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Properties, jobs and economy at increasing risk as climate change puts pressure on NZ's oceans and coasts

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Number of properties available to rent up 24% compared to a year ago, with the average asking rent down $20 a week

Bad news for landlords with rental stock levels up, asking rents coming down

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Susan St John argues Jobseeker changes turn young adults into dependent children, and squeeze households further

'The last thing we should do is treat young adults like dependent children'

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Lynda Moore says saving isn’t about hoarding, it’s about creating space and choices for your future self

Are you ‘revenge saving’? What your brain might be trying to tell you

https://www.interest.co.nz/personal-finance/135585/lynda-moore-says-saving-isn’t-about-hoarding-it’s-about-creating-space-and

Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 US equities break winning streak to be modestly weaker. Weaker risk sentiment supports US Treasuries. All eyes on the RBNZ policy update today, with the meeting seen as a close call between a 25 or 50bps rate cut

NZ dollar sustains Monday's gains

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 US data weakens; Canada PMI leaps; Japanese spending firm; Australian sentiment dips as do job ad levels; Airbus A320 trumps Boeing 737; UST 10yr at 4.12%; gold up as oil eases; NZ$1 = 58.1 USc; TWI-5 = 65.6

Breakfast briefing: Data downslide, led by the US

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Investors' share of residential property sales is increasing compared to last year but they are paying slightly less for the properties they buy

Property investors more active but paying less than last year

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