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Nicola Willis on the OCR cuts failure to sway interest rates

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Mon, 1 Dec 2025, 7:23pm
Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Nicola Willis on the OCR cuts failure to sway interest rates

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Publish Date
Mon, 1 Dec 2025, 7:23pm

As expected, the Reserve Bank cut the OCR to 2.25% last week - but an unexpected side effect has been a lack of effect.

The Reserve Bank announced that this would be the end of cuts, sending the wholesale market into a panic and, therefore, seeing no change in interest rates. 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis told Heather du Plessis-Allan, "my message to the banks is always the same, which is pass on as much as you possibly can because it's good for the economy."

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