David Chaston
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Breakfast briefing: New orders power global factories (opens the original)
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Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news global factories are mostly in expansion mode, driven by a new order surge and despite the rising cost pressures. But first, monitored US job cuts stayed quite low in September at about 44,000, similar to August, and similar to the level in September a year ago. US initial jobless claims dipped last week to 157,000, a shift that is explained by seasonal factors. There are now 1.5 mln people on these benefits,
What happened Thursday (opens the original)
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Here are the key things you need to know before you leave work today (or if you work from home, before you shutdown your laptop). MORTGAGE RATE CHANGESNo changes to report today. All current mortgage rates are here. And note, you can compare mortgage offers with our unique calculator that takes into account other costs and cashback incentives, here. TERM DEPOSIT/SAVINGS RATE CHANGESHeartland Bank raised some TD rates today for 18 months and longer. All updated term deposit rates less than 1 year
Breakfast briefing: Bonds press fiscal cliff warnings, but few are listening (opens the original)
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Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news the bond market warnings don't seem to be being taken seriously by policy makers. They are ignoring them at their peril. US mortgage applications fell sharply again last week as their benchmark 30 year home loan rate rose to 7.30% and a three year high. However, after three months of slowdown, the precursor ADP employment report showed a +90,000 gain for private sector jobs. In a longer perspective this level
What happened Wednesday (opens the original)
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Here are the key things you need to know before you leave work today (or if you work from home, before you shutdown your laptop). MORTGAGE RATE CHANGESANZ has trimmed two key rates to match some of its more competitive rivals. Details here. TSB also changed rates, some up one down. All current mortgage rates are here. And note, you can compare mortgage offers with our unique calculator that takes into account other costs and cashback incentives, here. TERM DEPOSIT/SAVINGS RATE CHANGESTSB raised
Breakfast briefing: US bond rates rise; China launches new stimulus (opens the original)
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Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news the bond market is shouting louder warnings at US policymakers. And China is rolling out more stimulus and subsidies to counter a growing slowdown there. First today, the overnight Pulse dairy auction delivered mixed results although both the SMP and WMP prices rose from the prior event, up by about +1.6% in USD terms. But as the NZD took a bit of a thrashing overnight, these prices were up more than +3% in lo
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