Christina Leung: NZIER principal economist says the Reserve Bank is balancing a lot of factors with OCR rise

Published: April 13, 2022, 7:34 p.m.

Surprise from some economists at the size of the Official Cash Rate rise.\xa0\nThe Reserve Bank has lifted the rate by half a percent, to 1.5 percent.\xa0\nNZIER principal economist, Christina Leung, says she thought there was a 50/50 chance of the rise being...