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Retail Spending Rises Again in May
Friday, 10 June 2005, 10:10 am | Bank of New Zealand
Economic commentary on retail spending in New Zealand by Tony Alexander, Chief Economist, Bank of New Zealand More >>
Pessimism Still Dominates
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 9:23 am | Bank of New Zealand
The response rate has dropped away a bit for this latest survey so we’ll keep an eye on that. This latest survey has produced a still high level of pessimism similar to last fortnight’s survey. The latest result is a net 52% pessimistic from 50.3% ... More >>
Bank of New Zealand Drops Rates
Monday, 30 May 2005, 12:21 am | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand Drops Rates, Launches Third Unbeatable Home Loan Campaign And Extends Unbeatable Promise To Three Year Fixed-Rate Term More >>
Classroom focus on writing creates winners
Monday, 30 May 2005, 12:01 am | Bank of New Zealand
After steering a trio of students to literary stardom, Ros Ali knows what it takes to make a good young writer. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, 26 May 2005
Friday, 27 May 2005, 10:12 am | BNZ Weekly
The Week Gone By 1 Exchange Rates 7 Interest Rates 4 Economic Data/Forecasts 10 Housing Market Update 5 More >>
Bank of New Zealand Bond Issue Oversubscribed
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 4:03 pm | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand today launched the ninth tranche of its Registered Transferable Deposit bond programme in response to strong demand from institutional and retail investors for well-rated corporate bonds. Bank of New Zealand is rated AA- (outlook ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - The Week Gone By
Friday, 20 May 2005, 10:12 am | Bank of New Zealand
The 2005/06 Budget was read this afternoon and you'll be so inundated with details of it in the media there is really no point going into major detail here. You can however check out the commentary written by our markets economists which should appear ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - Mayt 13 2005
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 9:55 am | Bank of New Zealand
This week we are again running our highly valued confidence survey and issue the usual invitation for people to submit comments on their particular industry. Feedback on this survey has been very positive to date and one can look through the responses ... More >>
Pessimism Eases Slightly
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 11:54 am | Bank of New Zealand
Expectations for the NZ economy remain fairly poor with a net 50% of respondents to our fortnightly survey sayiing they expect the economy to get worse over the coming year. This reading is down from a net 62% a fortnight ago and 56% a month ago but ... More >>
Bank of New Zealand Announces Steady Profit
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 12:33 am | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand announced a $265 million profit for the half-year ending 31 March 2005. Bank of New Zealand’s Managing Director, Peter Thodey, said the profit, which is $1 million (0.4%) more than the same period last year, reflected continued focus ... More >>
Retail Spending Rises In April
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 9:29 am | Bank of New Zealand
• Spending by BNZ debit and credit card holders in seasonally adjusted terms is estimated to have risen 0.8% in April. Following our estimate of a 0.5% fall in retail sales in March this suggests a flattening out of spending in the past two months following ... More >>
BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 9:18 am | Bank of New Zealand
If it weren’t for winning a prestigious writing award, Tracey Slaughter’s manuscript would still be gathering dust on a publisher’s pending pile. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 29 April 2005, 10:21 am | Bank of New Zealand
Maybe its just natural fluctuation, but our fortnightly confidence survey captured the large worsening in business sentiment reported yesterday morning some four weeks ago. It will be interesting to see if we are creating a good early indicator of sentiment ... More >>
Weekly home loan report - Interesting week ahead
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 12:47 am | Bank of New Zealand
One of the trends in the home loan market is that in the week before a Reserve Bank Official Cash Rate (OCR) announcement few changes are made. More >>
BNZ Launches New Initiative To Rebuild Reputation
Friday, 22 April 2005, 10:26 am | Bank of New Zealand
BNZ Launches New Initiative To Rebuild Reputation In Transaction-Based Small And Medium-Sized Business Market More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - Thursday 21 April 2005
Friday, 22 April 2005, 9:42 am | Bank of New Zealand
There was some excitement early this week following a 2% fall in the NZ sharemarket in response to a four day 420 point fall in the Dow Jones Index amidst concerns about weak US consumer spending, slowing world growth, and tensions between Japan and China. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 1 April 2005, 11:10 am | Bank of New Zealand
This week we are running our fortnightly survey of economic confidence and giving respondents the opportunity to let us know what is happening in their sector. We find the anecdotal comments about what is happening extremely helpful and like to ... More >>
Attempts to discredit 'Unbeatable' with BankDirect
Monday, 28 March 2005, 1:11 pm | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand says ASB is using its niche operator, BankDirect, to muddy the waters for home loan customers in an attempt to discredit the Bank’s successful ‘Unbeatable’ campaign. More >>
Bank of New Zealand remains ‘Unbeatable’
Friday, 18 March 2005, 2:26 pm | Bank of New Zealand
Bank of New Zealand has announced an increase in its variable interest rate following a similar increase by other major lenders. Bank of New Zealand’s variable rate has risen by 0.25 per cent to 9.00 per cent, effective yesterday. More >>
BNZ Town and Country Report - March 2005
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 2:02 pm | Bank of New Zealand
In February both farmers and city-folk cut spending from January levels by about the same amount –3.8% and 3.9% respectively. But in seasonally adjusted terms both results were reasonably strong at +1.6% for farmers and +1.0% for urbanites. • Over ... More >>
