{"id":305780,"date":"2026-02-19T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305780\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:42:09","slug":"new-zealands-central-bank-done-easing-policy-but-risks-are-on-both-sides-top-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305780\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s central bank done easing policy but risks are on both sides, top official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s central bank is done cutting interest rates but there are risks on either side as policymakers gauge the strength of the consumer recovery and the path of inflation, said a top official on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\n              Karen Silk, Assistant Governor at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, made the comments in an interview with Reuters on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\n              The RBNZ kept its main official cash rate at 2.25% on Wednesday and said monetary policy would stay accommodative for some time as the economy recovers. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Qiu; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s central bank is done cutting interest rates but there are risks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-305780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}