Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Licence needed for work use Start Free Trial
 

BNZ - Latest News [Page 34]

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 >>

Bank of New Zealand Appoints New Directors

Monday, 14 April 2008, 5:10 pm | Bank of New Zealand

Bank of New Zealand has appointed Stephen Moir and Dr Andy Pearce as non-executive directors, effective April 14th. More >>

BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overviews April 11 2008

Friday, 11 April 2008, 10:26 am | Bank of New Zealand

Over the past week in New Zealand we have seen more bad sentiment readings for the business sector and some shocking data on the Auckland housing market. In spite of this the NZD has risen over one cent against the greenback partly on the back of ... More >>

Confidence Survey - Pessimism Eases!

Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:54 am | Bank of New Zealand

There was a tremendous response producing lots of comments about conditions in a wide range of industries, including two pages on the real estate market. The overall sentiment indicator for the economy remains poor at a net 55% pessimistic. But in ... More >>

BNZ Weekly and Offshore Overviews April 3 2008

Friday, 4 April 2008, 9:51 am | Bank of New Zealand

In this week's Overview we again take a look at the necessary evil that is a weak economy and consider ways in which you might benefit from it. We reiterate our encouragement to exporters to hang in there, relief is coming though it will initially be a bumpy ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

LATEST HEADLINES

  • PARLIAMENT
  • POLITICS
  • REGIONAL