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						<title>NZ sharemarket gains early</title>        
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						<description>The New Zealand sharemarket gained in early trading following a rally by stocks in the United States, after the  US Federal Reserve kept monetary policy</description>
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						<title>Fed holds rates at record lows to foster recovery</title>        
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						<description>WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve has repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the US economic recovery and ease high unemployment.But the Fed&apos;s assessment of the economy was a bit more upbeat. It...</description>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:25:03 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Kiwi dollar makes modest gains vs euro</title>        
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						<description>The New Zealand dollar made modest gains against the euro and fell against the yen overnight, with the European currency weighed down by a lack of concrete progress on a financial aid package for debt-strapped Greece.Concerns...</description>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:06:17 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Inside Money:   Big money on the mend</title>        
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						<description>Good news was  released this week , we, the taxpayers, creamed almost $300 million out of financial institutions during the recently-forgotten global</description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:39:48 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Kiwi dollar bobbles around US70c</title>        
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						<description>The New Zealand dollar was bobbling around the US70c mark at 8am today, having dropped to about US69.65c a few hours earlier, its lowest point after tumbling yesterday on the Reserve Bank&apos;s no change scenario for interest rates.The...</description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:59:44 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Bernard Hickey:   Inflation to hit 5 per cent ?</title>        
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						<description>Inflation could hit 5 per cent by the end of the year, well outside the Reserve Bank&apos;s target range of 1-3 per cent, but it has decided to remain sitting on its hands. That&apos;s fair enough, given many of these increases are &apos;one...</description>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:30:10 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Brian Fallow :  Bollard&apos;s cut and paste job no bad thing</title>        
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						<description>Most of today&apos;s  interest rate decisions  from the Reserve Bank was cut-and-pasted from January&apos;s. There is a pretty strong resemblance to December&apos;s</description>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:24:19 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>OCR stays at 2.5pc, rates steady till mid-year</title>        
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						<description>Official interest rates have been left unchanged at a record low 2.5 per cent by the Reserve Bank this morning.Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard has re-confirmed his intention to start &quot;removing policy stimulus&quot; around the middle...</description>
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						<title>NZ dollar tops US70c</title>        
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						<description>The New Zealand dollar rose yesterday as traders squared up positions ahead of today&apos;s monetary policy statement by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. The dollar was at US70.63c at 5pm and rose as high as US70.69c. The central...</description>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:20:00 +1200</pubDate>
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