Reserve Bank of New Zealand acting governor Grant Spencer

Speaking at the news conference following the earlier policy announcement and Monetary Policy Statement release

  • economic outlook is very positive
  • there is additional fiscal stimulus relative to the picture we had in August
  • migration policy will be an offsetting factor
  • overall impact on the new government policy is a positive stimulus to aggregate demand of about 0.5% of GDP
  • moving to dual mandate is unlikely to have a major impact on the Bank runs monetary policy

more to come

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Earlier:

Long story short is beefier inflation and cash rate forecasts