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August 20 BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 21 August 2009, 10:20 am | BNZ Weekly
The only interesting data releases this week appeared last Friday when we saw confirmation that house prices are rising again in New Zealand and that retail spending is growing again. The numbers certainly don’t indicate that strong growth lies just ahead ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview August 13
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 12:03 pm | BNZ Weekly
This week we have seen wholesale interest rates creep higher with increasing acceptance around the world of mild economic recovery. We have also seen a round of bank lending rate increases to reflect funding cost rises over the past couple of months. Interestingly ... More >>
July 23 2009 issue of the BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 24 July 2009, 12:33 pm | BNZ Weekly
Fresh news has been light on the ground domestically this week. We have learnt that the net migration inflow continues to rise courtesy of a 27% fall in Kiwis leaving the country, and that average house prices fell just 1% during the March quarter ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview July 16 2009
Friday, 17 July 2009, 10:31 am | BNZ Weekly
This week we saw the NZ dollar trade briefly below US 62 cents. But it is now back just below 65 cents following a strong rally in the US sharemarket overnight and jump by investors into risky assets like the NZD. A retracement to settle back below ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Friday, 3 July 2009, 9:14 am | BNZ Weekly
Because we haven’t done this for a while, lets take a run-through of the things which will influence the strength of household spending over the coming year, starting with an assessment of how that spending has been going recently. About 60% of household ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, June 11
Friday, 12 June 2009, 9:50 am | BNZ Weekly
The Reserve Bank this morning left their cash rate unchanged at 2.5% and said they intend keeping it low until late-2010. Their comments about the economy were more positive than expected with the result that the NZD has risen one cent to end Thursday ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - Sentiment Remains Positive
Monday, 8 June 2009, 11:24 am | BNZ Weekly
To help Kiwi businesspeople and householders make informed financial decisions by discussing the economy in a language they can understand. Sentiment Remains Positive Our monthly survey of BNZ Weekly Overview readers has revealed a small decrease in ... More >>
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
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
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 Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview.
Friday, 17 October 2008, 2:26 pm | BNZ Weekly
Welcome to the October 16 2008 editions of the BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview and Offshore Overview
Friday, 19 September 2008, 9:32 am | BNZ Weekly
As so many analysts have been noting for the past year there is as yet no sign that the US-sourced credit crisis is ending. Over the past week things have become tremendously worse with bank failures and buyouts and perhaps more to come in the next few weeks. ... More >>
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 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 >>
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 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 >>
Weekly and Offshore Overviews, March 27 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:45 am | BNZ Weekly
This week in New Zealand we have seen some bad confidence numbers released backing up the view that while this Friday we may see a good growth number released for the December quarter there are very weak conditions in prospect for the remainder of ... More >>
