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BNZ Confidence Survey: Pessimism Steady
Friday, 14 July 2006, 3:32 pm | BNZ Weekly
Attached please find the results of our July 6 survey of Weekly Overview readers. Consistent with other surveys released recently which have shown little change in business sentiment our monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers has revealed a net ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, July 13
Friday, 14 July 2006, 9:39 am | BNZ Weekly
This week we have received data showing that although business confidence remains poor expectations of cost increases are very high and pricing intentions are well above average. The inflationary implications of these results were strengthened by ... More >>
July 6 edition of the BNZ Weekly Overview
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 3:05 pm | BNZ Weekly
This week we are once again running our monthly survey of the confidence of Weekly Overview readers. If time permits please click on the URL below and tick whether you believe the economy will get better or worse over the next 12 months. More importantly ... More >>
BNZ Weekly, June 29
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:56 am | BNZ Weekly
The Kiwi dollar has fallen back below 60 cents this week on the back of some recent weak current account and merchandise trade numbers and with the US dollar firming against other currencies in expectation of monetary policy being tightened by the ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, June 22
Friday, 23 June 2006, 11:45 am | BNZ Weekly
This morning we learned that New Zealand's current account deficit is equal to 9.3% of GDP and not the 9% commonly expected in the markets. This has generated some mild weakness in the Kiwi dollar and reinforces a downward trend we expect to be in place ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, June 1
Friday, 2 June 2006, 10:27 am | BNZ Weekly
This week we are once again running our monthly survey of confidence amongst Weekly Overview readers. If time permits please click on the URL below and let us know whether you believe the economy will be getting better or worse over the next 12 months. ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, 20 April
Friday, 21 April 2006, 9:44 am | BNZ Weekly
The New Zealand dollar has risen slightly over the past week while wholesale interest rates have crept up with a significant cause for both moves being the markets becoming less optimistic about the timing of the Reserve Bank easing monetary policy. More ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, March 16
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 3:11 pm | BNZ Weekly
Things have been quite interesting this week with monetary policy standing still last Thursday, then immediately after that data appearing showing weak retail spending over the past three months and the housing market coming off the boil at a fairly ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, March 8
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 2:05 pm | BNZ Weekly
Over the past week we have seen the Kiwi dollar drop firmly against other currencies on the back of expectations of narrowing interest rate differentials. One can never tell where a period of currency weakness will end but for now with increasing talk ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, February 23
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 4:26 pm | BNZ Weekly
There has been some excitement in the FX market this week with the Kiwi dollar dropping 1.5¢ against the U.S. dollar and 1¢ against the Australian dollar. Exporters may want to contain their excitement for the moment however as some of the rumors which ... More >>
Pessimism Still Dominant
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 1:56 pm | BNZ Weekly
Our first survey for the year of how Weekly Overview readers are feeling about the economy has found a net 65% expecting things will get worse this year. This is a mild improvement from a net 73% pessimism in the December survey but in line with ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview, Feb 2 2006
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 3:27 pm | BNZ Weekly
This week we are running our first BNZ Confidence Survey for 2006. If you have about 30 seconds to spare please click on the URL below and tell us whether you believe the economy is going to get better or worse over the next twelve months. More importantly, ... More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview - first for 2006
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:10 pm | BNZ Weekly
The main issue for this year is going to be how much growth slows down and how that slowing is spread across sectors. The longer it takes for the exchange rate to come down the greater the export sector pain and the longer it will take for domestic ... More >>
BNZ Survey Results
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 3:42 pm | BNZ Weekly
Attached please find the results of our monthly survey of WO readers. Pessimism is dominant but slightly less than last month. Exporters are feeling the pinch though not all that much in pastoral farming and there were fewer mentions of labour shortages. More >>
BNZ Weekly Overview
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 5:16 pm | BNZ Weekly
This week we are running our monthly BNZ Confidence Survey. We find the results of this survey very useful for gauging where the economy is at - more so the comments than the headline number. So if time permits please click on the URL below and tick ... 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 >>
Growth Prospects Deteriorate Slightly
Friday, 23 May 2003, 9:32 am | BNZ Weekly
News of the week this week just has to be the fall in the US dollar following the US Treasury Secretary’s comments at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in France over the weekend, and the resulting rise in the NZD through US 58 cents. The range US ... More >>
Labour Market Strong Despite Unemployment Rise
Monday, 12 May 2003, 7:59 am | BNZ Weekly
For those without economics degrees this is a simple guide to something significant which happened in the world of economics today that has relevance to the person on the street. More >>
Negative Factors Dominate
Friday, 9 May 2003, 9:08 am | BNZ Weekly
Its time for a run-through of the factors in play for the NZ economy this year, the majority of which fall on the negative side but enough of which are positive to keep the economy growing at or above 2%. First the things causing growth to slow down. More >>
Businesses Very Worried
Friday, 11 April 2003, 8:52 am | BNZ Weekly
Last week we ran through a long list of reasons why growth in the NZ economy will slow this year from the above average pace of 4.4% achieved over 2002 toward something between 2% and 2.5%. This week we have the quarterly survey from the NZIER to strongly ... More >>
