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Home loan rates may not fall much further
Thursday 18th of October 2012
Wholesale interest rates, driven down by Australia’s official interest rate cuts, are supporting lower mortgage rates. The two-year swap rate has fallen 7bps to 2.51% and the New Zealand dollar is down about 30pts to 0.8150 since the release of the June quarter inflation data.
ANZ’s latest property market report said that banks had also responded to the ANZ/National Bank merger by loweri...
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