You can read and comment on the latest views from our team of financial commentators. Topics range from foreign exchange, finance, investing to blogs on trading.
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Signs the property market is warming
By The Landlord
The little theme of this week’s newsletter is about looking ahead at the property market and what is happening. Pondering the market is something we often do and it is worth addressing again as there is so much uncertainty and change.
While the news... More »
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Hubbard needs to distance himself
By Pattrick Smellie
OK, everybody take a deep breath. Underneath all the fog of commentary and arm-waving, a fairly simple thing has happened to South Canterbury Finance today.
Its affairs are in the hands of receivers, as has happened to many a company in corporate history. ... More »
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Contrarian Thoughts: A slow market explosion
By Wayne Lochore
The change in tone in global financial markets and websites in the past two weeks has been sudden and alarming and I must comment on the change.
As reluctant as I am to be swayed too much by emotion it seems the recent appearance of the “Hindenburg... More »
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SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Forget retirement, just save
By Pattrick Smellie
Now, the government has an economic story to tell.
By reframing as a national savings issue the sterile debates about superannuation, privatisation, private foreign debt levels and the sale of farmland to foreigners, the potential is there to de-fang... More »
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Contrarian thoughts – Let’s talk about some really big numbers
By Wayne Lochore
As the world economic system strives to right itself from what has been called the Credit Crunch or the Great Recession, or any other euphemistic tag designed to understate the significance of what we face, one of the very interesting recent trends has... More »
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When tight is still loose
By Pattrick Smellie
One of our mortgages came up for roll-over in the past couple weeks and, after a squizz around www.mortgagerates.co.nz, and a general vague feeling that interest rates are only going to rise from here, we fixed for three years at a bit over 7%.
Who knows... More »
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In food they trust us
By Pattrick Smellie
Not for the last time, Fonterra has had to deal with a food safety crisis in China. Perhaps for the first time, it has been able to deal with the story – at home – in a firm, low-key way.
In China, no one on the street knows who Fonterra is, but they... More »
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SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Is the worst over for Telecom?
By Pattrick Smellie
Here’s a heretical thought: the great dog of the New Zealand sharemarket, Telecom, may just about be ready to sit up and bark again.
Having plumbed depths that took the share price to a historic low point in June of $1.78, sparking talk of break-up... More »
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Contrarian thoughts – Unusual confusion
By Wayne Lochore
I saw a quote today that summed up the state of mainstream economics more clearly than even Ben Bernanke could have done.
“The recession was un¬usually long and unusually severe and has proved unusually resistant to unusual amounts of stimulus,”... More »
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Who buys gold bullion?
By NZ Mint
If the movies are to be believed, gold bullion is reserved for super wealthy villains such as Goldfinger, but bullion trader Marianne Findlay from New Zealand Mint (NZ Mint) paints a very different picture.
Marianne says “Really there is no “type”... More »
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