Chantelle Cole
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122 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And while I've been celebrating, as I'm sure many New Zealanders have been, the big fall in the petrol price at the pump and how exciting that is for reducing prices across the economy.
Of course, just in the past 24 hours, we've seen the price of oil leap up 5% as the skirmish in the
There's just a lot of unknown factors, and I think it's very important the Reserve Bank respond to the actual data and information they receive.
We still don't have the full information about what happened in that three months when the crisis was peaking, how high actually did inflation go, what did happen with growth.
And until I've got that information, it's pretty difficult to guess what the right response through the OCR is.
Well, that is the silver lining in yesterday's statement.
I'm never going to be out there cheerleading for interest rate rises, but at the same time, having the Reserve Bank confirm in sober terms that the government's assessment that economic recovery is underway is good to see.
We had a good three months starting the year.
We got put off the pace by events in the Middle East, but the consensus among economists is actually we're going to bounce back strongly.
And that's really positive because that's where income growth will come from.
That's where jobs will come from.
That's where opportunities for New Zealand businesses will come from.
And that's our government's plan.
Get the conditions right so the economy can grow and people can get ahead and life in New Zealand can be more affordable.
Yes, prices are rising.
But if you look at recent survey data, what businesses are saying is that their pricing intentions, i.e.
how much they intend to increase prices, has reduced somewhat.
And I think that reflects the reality that many businesses have said,
kind of absorbed what happened during the Middle East period and gone, actually, we can't afford to pass that on to too many of our consumers too hard and fast because actually they'll walk away.
They'll stop buying our products or services.
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