Annual inflation has hit a 32-year-high at 7.3%. Stats NZ data for the June-quarter Consumers Price Index showed it was the highest increase since mid-1990.
It followed a 6.9% increase in the March quarter.
Economists had been expecting inflation this quarter to be around 7%.
On a quarterly basis,
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