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Bernard Hickey

Bernard Hickey is the Managing Editor of Newsroom Pro based in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. He is a director and shareholder of Newsroom NZ Ltd. He has previously worked for Interest.co.nz, Fairfax NZ, the Financial Times Group and Reuters.

Podcast: Two Cents' Worth

Why we’re hung up and two-faced on debt

Debt is deep in the heart of our heart and our society, but we have an odd relationship with it. Bernard Hickey asks why we both love and fear it.

9 hours ago

Bernard Hickey

Economy

RBNZ pulls bank capital punch (a bit)

The Reserve Bank has softened the blow to bank profits, dividends and mortgage rates slightly by tweaking its capital upgrade proposals. Bernard Hickey reports.

Dec 05 2019

Bernard Hickey

Infrastructure

Govt move turns the screw on Rio Tinto

Transmission line upgrades have been brought forward so Manapouri’s electricity can be fed into the South Island’s grid.

Dec 05 2019

Bernard Hickey

Business

Why dart-throwing monkeys can be dangerous and dirty

Kiwi Wealth’s fund managers have challenged the prevailing view that passive managers do better than active managers in the long run.

Dec 03 2019

Bernard Hickey

Economy

RBNZ decides not to ease LVR restrictions

The Reserve Bank has decided not to ease loan-to-value ratio restrictions, saying very low interest rates could fuel excessive risk-taking.

Nov 27 2019

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technology

How 5G could transform health and cities

Bernard Hickey explains how 5G-connected ambulances, train stations and cars are set to revolutionise the way we move around and stay healthy.

Nov 26 2019

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Week in Review

The power of an internet-connected screwdriver

Bernard Hickey visited E-Go’s electric car factory in Aachen, Germany to find how it used a 5G network to flip car-making on its head, and how it’s an example of what Industry 4.0 could look like in New Zealand.

Nov 19 2019

Bernard Hickey

Week in Review

5G: Atomic clocks, Massive MIMOs and sliced networks

Bernard Hickey unravels and explains the technologies, the acronyms and the power of 5G.

Nov 12 2019

Bernard Hickey

Week in Review

The dirty little secret in this migration debate

NZ is kidding itself that it is growing its economy and its wealth, but all it is doing is bringing in more people, working them harder for less pay, and refusing to invest in the underlying infrastructure and social fabric of the country.

Nov 11 2019

Bernard Hickey

Podcast: Two Cents' Worth

Two Cents’ Worth: 48 hours that changed us forever

Galatea farm boy Bernard Hickey looks back to when ‘Brentry’ (Britain’s entry into the EEC in 1973) was seen as an existential threat to NZ’s future.

Nov 11 2019

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Economy

We are still heading towards a zero percent OCR

Labour market data shows a rise in unemployment plus overall wage growth hitting a 10-year high, but the Reserve Bank is still expected to cut interest rates.

Nov 07 2019

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technology

How 5G could unleash a productivity quantum leap

Torrents of super fast data with edge computing could unlock a much-needed productivity surge for NZ’s businesses and governments, Bernard Hickey explains.

Nov 05 2019

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Media monitoring

Bernard’s Pick of the News Links - Nov 1

Smellie on the crucifixion of Phil Twyford; Could cash become commercially unviable; Westpac now sees no RBNZ rate cut next month; ANZ profit down

Nov 01 2019

Bernard Hickey

Media monitoring

Bernard’s pick of the news links - Oct 31

Twyford denies he misled Parliament over NZTA rejection of NZ Super plan for Light Rail; Julie-Anne Genter and the second Mt Vic tunnel; NZ Oil and Gas faces takeover NZ Thomas Coughlan (Stuff) For the second day in a row, Phil Twyford looks like...

Oct 31 2019

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Corporate

Why the closure of Tiwai Pt is no sure thing

Some see consensus building in Wellington for closure, but Bernard Hickey isn’t convinced.

Oct 30 2019

Bernard Hickey

Media monitoring

Bernard’s pick of the news links - Oct 30

Rio Tinto not bluffing on shutting Tiwai Point; Coughlan says consensus growing for smelter closure; Twyford ‘forgot’ NZTA board offer Politics/economy Evan Harding (Stuff) Rio Tinto ‘not bluffing’ about threat to shut Tiwai Point smelter Thomas...

Oct 30 2019

Bernard Hickey

Media monitoring

Bernard’s pick of the news links - Oct 29

Brian Gaynor calls for debt-funded infrastructure stimulus; Cormack says Twyford must go; Vance says Ardern must start delivering New Zealand Brian Gaynor (NZH-paywalled) Brian Gaynor: Time right for Govt to be bold and borrow Key quote: ‘Finance is...

Oct 29 2019

Bernard Hickey

Corporate

Plan B needed for APEC 2021

Sky City and Fletcher Building see another “material delay” to opening of International Convention Centre as fire still rages. A plan B is needed for APEC in November 2021, says Goff.

Oct 23 2019

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Comment

Let’s vote to re-engineer our cities

To really achieve change, climate change protesters should be voting in their droves in the council elections due to close this Saturday.

Oct 09 2019

Bernard Hickey

Politics

MMP’s biplanes will shoot Jones’ King Kong

Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones describes NZ First’s idea of moving the Auckland port to Northland as the ‘King Kong’ of projects - but MMP’s weaponisation of vested interests will shoot the idea down.

Oct 07 2019

Bernard Hickey