Tuesday 27th January 2009 |
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"While talk of a recovery may be premature, the steep decline of the credit market could be slowing up," said John Roberts, New Zealand director of Veda Advantage, the nation's biggest credit information service.
Applications fell 6% in December from the same month of 2007. That's less than a third of the slump in applications for credit such as personal loans and hire purchase agreements in November, the firm said in a statement.
The first round of income tax cuts kicked in on October 1, with the next round due in April. The central bank is set to cut the official cash rate by 100 basis points to 4% on January 29, according to the consensus of estimates in a Reuters survey, extending the steepest easing cycle since the OCR was introduced in 1999.
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