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BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview.
Friday, 12 September 2008, 9:43 am | BNZ Weekly
The big news for the New Zealand economy this week was the Reserve Bank's larger than expected 0.5% cut in the official cash rate this morning. It appears they were motivated to cut this amount rather than the expected 0.25% by concerns bank lending ... More >>
BNZ Monthly Survey Results 8 Sept 2008
Monday, 8 September 2008, 10:30 am | Bank of New Zealand
Attached you will find the results of our monthly survey of weekly overview readers. There has been a sharp improvement in confidence over the past month to the highest level recorded since the survey started in 2005. Having said that the comments about ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview.
Friday, 5 September 2008, 10:02 am | BNZ Weekly
This week we are once again running our monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers. If time permits please click on the URL below and let us know whether you think the economy will get better or worse over the coming year. Better yet, tell us how things ... More >>
August 21 2008 BNZ editions
Friday, 22 August 2008, 11:48 am | Bank of New Zealand
We haven't learnt very much new about the New Zealand economy over the past week. Retail spending has been confirmed as very weak over the June quarter while there are widespread expectations that house prices will decline. But this appears to be ... More >>
BNZ Weekly + Offshore Overviews, 14/08/08
Friday, 15 August 2008, 10:27 am | Bank of New Zealand
Our monthly confidence survey has shown a recovery in sentiment to its best level since November last year. However pessimism still prevails and short term prospects for the economy are still relatively poor for companies focused on retailing and ... More >>
BNZ Confidence Survey 9 August
Monday, 11 August 2008, 10:47 am | Bank of New Zealand
There has been a noticeable shift in sentiment recorded in our monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers. We can see the improvement most obviously in the net proportion of respondents expecting the economy to get better in the coming year improving to ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 5:14 pm | Bank of New Zealand
The August 7 2008 editions of the BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview. BNZ WeeklyOverview BNZ offshore overview ENDS More >>
Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview July 31 2008
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 4:48 pm | Bank of New Zealand
Consistent with our survey result of a month ago another bank survey this afternoon has shown a small pullback in business confidence about the economy over the next 12 months. This week we have also learnt about weakness in residential and non-residential ... More >>
BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overview, July 17 2008
Friday, 18 July 2008, 10:31 am | Bank of New Zealand
Economic data releases have been thin on the ground both locally and overseas in the past week. Here in New Zealand we have learnt that inflation hit 4% in the year to June and on our calculations will reach 5% in three months time. Petrol prices ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview
Friday, 11 July 2008, 2:31 pm | BNZ Weekly
Welcome to the July 10 2008 editions of the BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview. More >>
BNZ encourages online customers to cut statements
Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 1:22 pm | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand has launched an online campaign encouraging online banking customers to give up paper statements in return for a native tree. From this week until the end of September customers will be prompted to opt-into receiving online statements ... More >>
BNZ Monthly Survey Results July 5 2008
Monday, 7 July 2008, 10:40 am | Bank of New Zealand
After improving for three months in a row business confidence about where the economy will be in 12 months time has gone backwards over the past month. In our survey from Thursday night through Friday a net 43.9% of respondents said they expect the economy ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, Offshore Overview July 3 2008
Friday, 4 July 2008, 11:39 am | Bank of New Zealand
Lots of pieces of data relevant to the New Zealand economy's performance have been released in the past week. We have learnt the economy shrank 0.3% over the March quarter and we think a similar decline will end up being reported for the June quarter. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, Offshore Overview June 26 08
Friday, 27 June 2008, 10:16 am | Bank of New Zealand
Tomorrow morning we expect data to be released showing the NZ economy shrank over the March quarter. Our economy has been hit by a large number of negative factors just when tight monetary policy was finally becoming effective in slowing growth. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overviews May 22 2008
Friday, 23 May 2008, 9:57 am | Bank of New Zealand
The government revealed some larger than expected tax cuts in today’s Budget which because of the extra support implied for growth and inflationary pressures has pushed wholesale interest rates up from a week ago and seen the NZD end three cents ahead ... More >>
BNZ Weekly By Chief Economist Tony Alexander
Friday, 16 May 2008, 9:06 am | BNZ Weekly
It has been another good week for exporters with the NZD falling to 77.6 cents following weaker than expected retailing numbers this morning. All the evidence shows that after four and a half years of raising then maintaining high interest rates the Reserve ... More >>
BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overviews May 8 2008
Friday, 9 May 2008, 10:12 am | Bank of New Zealand
This has been a very interesting week with important implications for the economy, interest rates and the exchange rate. First, overseas credit conditions have been easing slightly in recent weeks and this has produced some mild downward pressure ... More >>
BNZ reports strong half year profit result
Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 am | BNZ
Bank of New Zealand has announced a strong underlying half year result for the six months ending March 2008 with a 14.9 per cent increase in cash earnings after tax to $239 million for its New Zealand Banking division compared to the same period ... More >>
BNZ Monthly Confidence Survey Results May 3 08
Monday, 5 May 2008, 9:53 am | Bank of New Zealand
The BNZ monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers has revealed a small decline in pessimism for the second month in a row. A net 49% of respondents expect the economy to get worse over the coming year compared with 55% early in April and 62% in March. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overviews April 23 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 9:44 am | Bank of New Zealand
This week we spend the first few pages of the WO examining the retail sector. We look at why growth rates since 2001 could never be sustained, which store types tend to experience the greatest activity decline in a recession and which skate along ... More >>
