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Lavish lifestyle of $17.8 million bank swindler

If it wasn't for Bernie Madoff, Stephen Versalko could still be stealing millions.

'Mr Invincible' sentenced after record-breaking fraud

The scale of the fraud makes Stephen Versalko's case the largest single employment theft in New Zealand history.

'Hero' let go after blowing whistle

NZ dollar pushes higher

NZ sharemarket gains early

Kiwi dollar in demand and rising

Second brokerage pulls out of direct trading

Telecom depresses NZ sharemarket

</i>Inside Money: </i> Big money on the mend

Inflation a concern as Bollard holds rates

Inflation a concern but banks make Bollard's job easier

NZ sharemarket closes little changed

Dollar falls after Monetary Policy Statement

<i>Brian Fallow :</i> Bollard's cut and paste job no bad thing

It does not inspire confidence to have wild swings in the central bank's view of the economic outlook and what it is likely to do.

NZ dollar slips as Bollard holds to rates timing

OCR stays at 2.5pc, rates steady till mid-year

The Reserve Bank has left the Official Cash Rate unchanged at 2.5pc, and again said it may be the middle of this year before they rise.