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Dawn chorus: CCCFA review launchedListen now (9 min) | Clark orders review into bank lending practices after post-CCCFA credit crackdown; Child vaccinations & booster bookings start as contract tracers track MIQ worker with omicron
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Officials warn DHBs to brace for omicron surge in 2-4 weeks; Omicron peaking in US, UK and NSW; Australia set to have 10% of workforce absent; More CCCFA tales of woe
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Dawn chorus: Slowing China cuts ratesListen now (13 min) | While the RBNZ and Fed talk tough on inflation and hike interest rates, our largest trading partner's growth is slowing and it just eased monetary policy; Omicron hammers Australian retail
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Bascand exits early after “unauthorised release” of RBNZ revamp to third party; US inflation hits 7%, but markets calm as rise was forecast; Aotearoa-NZ living on borrowed time before omicron hits
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Banks slashing high LVR loans to first home buyers; Australia's food supply chain turmoil; 2021 hottest year ever for Aotearoa-NZ; 1.3m US Covid cases…
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Tech stocks slump 10% in two weeks on fear Fed will stop money printing early; The inflection points I’m looking for this year; Kvalsig calls for delay…
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US inflation set to rise to 7.1%, forcing Fed to hike by March, but will it stick? MIQ-free travel from Australia now looks unlikely until May as…
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NZers stuck in Australia unable to return home until May at the earliest after being locked out of MIQ; Fed minutes eye earlier rate hikes, which…
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House price inflation accelerates again in Dec from Nov; Average house value tops $1m for first time; Selwyn house values up 42.7% in calendar 2021…
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NZ housing market is worth nearly five times NZ GDP, while US houses are worth 1.7 times US GDP and US stocks are worth 2.2 times US GDP; Omicron runs…
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Auckland Uni tells Wiles & Hendy to comment less if they want less abuse, despite having highlighted their ‘critic and conscience of society’ work to…
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564 entertainment workers given visas since Feb 2020, despite 3,000-5,000 split families unable to see loved ones; Indonesia bans coal exports that…
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