27 Nov 2024

Reserve Bank cuts OCR by 50 points to 4.25%

From Checkpoint, 5:14 pm on 27 November 2024

The Reserve bank delivered a pre Christmas financial cracker, cutting wholesale interest rates by half a percent to 4.25 percent. It wasn't the supersized slash that some had hoped for but it is the third rate drop since August. Kiwibank Chief Economist Jarrod Kerr spoke to Lisa Owen.