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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 >>
BNZ Daily FX Wrap & Strategy - 10 Feb 09
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:38 am | Bank of New Zealand
Improving risk appetite saw NZD/USD surge dramatically higher last night, from around 0.5250 to nearly 0.5450. More >>
BNZ Markets Outlook - Hope versus Reality
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:18 am | Bank of New Zealand
Hope versus Reality - Housing market dynamics remain net negative - Jan's ECT data will test spending hopes, Wednesday - With Friday's December/Q4 retail likely mixed - Thursday's PMI an area of vulnerability - NZ CPI relief foiled by resurging fuel ... More >>
BNZ Daily FX Wrap & Strategy - 9 Feb 2009
Monday, 9 February 2009, 8:59 am | Bank of New Zealand
NZD/USD surged dramatically higher on Friday night, amid improving risk appetite after an abysmal US non-farm payrolls spurred hope that Congress would act quickly to pass Obama's stimulus package. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview.
Saturday, 7 February 2009, 2:53 pm | BNZ
Good evening everybody - although where I am at the moment in Hamburg, Germany, it is the start of yet another very cold cloudy morning. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview January 29 2009
Friday, 30 January 2009, 10:08 am | Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank generally exceeded market expectations this morning by cutting the official cash rate 1.5% down to 3.5%. Given the strong emphasis the RB placed on the situation offshore and the fact that things internationally continue to deteriorate ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 19 December 2008, 10:07 am | BNZ
It would be great if we could finish the year saying that there is clear light at the end of the tunnel for the world economy and we are going to get by relatively unscathed next year because of easing monetary policy, tax cuts, falling petrol prices ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview 10/12/08
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 9:57 am | Bank of New Zealand
This week's issues are being sent one day early as one will be on annual leave tomorrow. We've learnt little new about the New Zealand economy over the past week. Residential construction activity fell away strongly during the September quarter while non-residential ... More >>
BNZ Weekly + Offshore Overviews, 27/11/08
Friday, 28 November 2008, 10:15 am | Bank of New Zealand
The week started off very badly internationally with fresh worries about world growth leading to relatively sharp declines in sharemarkets. But over the weekend the announcement from President-elect Obama that he is considering a fiscal stimulus plan aimed at ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview 20/11/08
Friday, 21 November 2008, 9:24 am | Bank of New Zealand
Sharemarkets have weakened around the world again over the past week with yet more deepening of concern for the global economy over 2009. Forecasters are falling over themselves to downgrade predictions for growth in all economies next year and there ... More >>