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BNZ Weekly Overview.
Friday, 5 June 2009, 9:45 am | BNZ Weekly
This week we are once again running our monthly survey. If time permits please click on the link below and tick whether you believe the economy will get better or worse over the coming year. Also if possible, pen a sentence letting us know how things ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - Budget
Friday, 29 May 2009, 10:57 am | BNZ Weekly
By the time anyone gets to read this week’s edition of the WO there will be literally thousands of pages of information about the 2009 Budget already on the internet. So there seems little point in doing anything other than running through some of ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - May 21 2009
Friday, 22 May 2009, 1:11 pm | Bank of New Zealand
The NZD has crept back above 60 cents this week with the world increasingly buying into the green shoots theory and acting on it by buying growth and risky assets. This in spite of some truly appalling economic numbers released during the week including ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - May 14 2009
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 5:01 pm | Bank of New Zealand
First of all many thanks to all those who responded to our monthly survey. The results give the most up to date timely measure of business sentiment in NZ and show a huge sigh of relief that the Great Depression scenario has been avoided. More >>
BNZ Confidence Survey Results, May 11 2009
Monday, 11 May 2009, 10:45 am | Bank of New Zealand
Our monthly BNZ Confidence Survey has revealed a substantial improvement in sentiment over the past month. A net 27% of respondents feel the economy will improve over the coming year. This is well up from balanced expectations in April and a net 23% ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 8 May 2009, 10:23 am | BNZ Weekly
This morning we learnt that although employment fell 24,000 in the March quarter the unemployment rate only rose to 5% from 4.7%. The rate has averaged 4.8% over the past decade. But interestingly, we also learnt today that in Australia employment ... More >>
April 23 2009 issue of the BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 24 April 2009, 10:11 am | BNZ Weekly
The NZD has fallen to just over 55 US cents this week with some downward pressure from a downbeat report on NZ by the OECD, perhaps some rise in world growth worries associated with the worrying six monthly report by the IMF, and anticipation of an ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - April 16 2009
Friday, 17 April 2009, 9:43 am | BNZ Weekly
The NZD has ended the week unchanged against the USD – still near 57 cents with support from those continuing to give the benefit of the doubt to light at the end of the US economic tunnel. This mild optimism – which has driven the sharp gains ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview April 8 2009
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:32 pm | Bank of New Zealand
The NZD has once again ended the week near US 57 cents with an initial rise to near 60 cents early in the week reversed on the back of very weak business hiring and investment intentions revealed in yesterday’s NZIER quarterly survey. The survey ... More >>
BNZ Monthly Confidence Survey Results
Monday, 6 April 2009, 11:02 am | BNZ
To help Kiwi businesspeople and householders make informed financial decisions by discussing the economy in a language they can understand. The results here come from a monthly survey of over 16,000 Weekly Overview readers. Sentiment Improves Our monthly ... More >>
BNZ Markets Outlook RBNZ on Back Foot Already
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 9:45 am | BNZ
RBNZ on Back Foot Already - Q4 manufacturing down 4.0%, despite rural boost - GDP pick downgraded to -1.1% (RBNZ -0.8%) - MPS global buffer crushed by March consensus cull - Highlighting risks to RBNZ-assumed GDP rebound - Pressure for further OCR ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 10:22 am | BNZ Weekly
Our first monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers for 2009 has revealed a deterioration in sentiment from the last survey back in December. A net 23% of respondents expect the economy to get worse over the coming year from 6% three months ago. More >>
BNZ Daily FX Wrap & Strategy 9/3/09
Monday, 9 March 2009, 10:37 am | Bank of New Zealand
The NZD/USD spent Friday night within a familiar 0.5000-0.5100 range. An awful US non-farm payrolls release (jobs fell 651,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 8.1%) triggered a brief bout of USD weakness, which saw NZD/USD push up towards 0.5100. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 6:21 pm | BNZ
This week we are running our first monthly survey for the year. If time permits please click on the URL below and let us know whether you think the economy will get better or worse in a year's time. And if you have a minute to spare let us know in a couple ... More >>
Strategist and Models & Technicals
Monday, 2 March 2009, 10:21 am | BNZ
Today's National Bank survey confirmed the parlous state of the New Zealand economy. But, in doing so, it suggested that the local economy would fare no worse than we already anticipate in our forecasts. There's still some life in the corporate sector ... More >>
BNZ Daily FX Wrap & Strategy
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 12:32 pm | BNZ
The overnight news was fairly awful Worries about emerging Europe resurfaced after Standard & Poor’s downgraded Latvia’s sovereign debt to junk status and put Lithuania and Estonia on negative watch. The German IFO business confidence index fell to a ... More >>
BNZ Daily FX Wrap & Strategy
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:35 pm | Bank of New Zealand
The NZD/USD has spent the past 24 hours consolidating within a 0.5060-0.5200 range. Through the first half of the night, risk appetite and demand for growth sensitive currencies like NZD was bolstered by hopes the US government would provide further ... More >>
February 20, 2009 issue of the BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 20 February 2009, 10:14 am | Bank of New Zealand
To help Kiwi businesspeople and householders make informed financial decisions by discussing the economy and its implications in a language they can understand. In this week’s issue... More >>
BNZ Strategist and Models & Technicals
Friday, 13 February 2009, 10:28 am | Bank of New Zealand
Economic Outlook While the New Zealand economy will be battered by the global recession, we don't believe it will be fried by it. In support, substantial amounts of monetary and fiscal ammunition are being fired with great guns. This is happening against ... More >>
February 12 2009 issue of the BNZ Weekly Overview.
Friday, 13 February 2009, 10:09 am | Bank of New Zealand
To help Kiwi businesspeople and householders make informed financial decisions by discussing the economy and its implications in a language they can understand. More >>