Kiwibank expects a hike in May 2019, the bank was previously at a hike in the final warter of 2018

  • looking for inflation at around 2% middle of this year, but RBNZ willa llow it overshoot
  • Forecast 3% cash rate by 2020

Kbank looking at 2.5 to 3% GDP growth in first half of 2018 and an acceleration in H2