NEWS RELEASE
Date 18 August 2010
Time 9.30am

RBNZ MPS/OCR and FSR dates for 2011

The following is the Reserve Bank’s schedule for the release of its 2011 quarterly Monetary Policy Statements, the intervening Official Cash Rate announcements, and the six-monthly Financial Stability Reports.

Each Monetary Policy Statement includes within it an OCR announcement, so, as usual, in total there will be eight OCR announcements during 2011. Each announcement will be made at 9.00 am on the day concerned.

For the first time, the Bank is also adding the first six months’ dates for the following year to assist financial markets’ planning, but these 2012 dates are provisional, subject to confirmation in August 2011.

2011
27 January OCR announcement
10 March Monetary Policy Statement
28 April OCR announcement
9 June Monetary Policy Statement
28 July OCR announcement
15 September Monetary Policy Statement
27 October OCR announcement
8 December Monetary Policy Statement

2012
26 January OCR announcement
8 March Monetary Policy Statement
26 April OCR announcement
14 June Monetary Policy Statement

The Financial Stability Report release dates are also released for 2011 and the first half of 2012.

2011
11 May Financial Stability Report
9 November Financial Stability Report

2012
9 May Financial Stability Report

The Reserve Bank reserves the right to make changes to this schedule, if required, due to unexpected developments. In that unlikely event, the markets and the media will be given as much warning as possible.