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Molesworth & Featherston (Bonus Edition) April 20
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 1:28 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
It’s a short week, Parliament isn’t sitting and half the country seems to be on holiday...so instead of cancelling this week’s edition altogether this edition is a free update for all subscribers. Never say we don’t share the love. More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – April 8 2006
Sunday, 9 April 2006, 10:25 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
New Zealand will likely face adverse trade consequences if the Security Council dispute over Iran's pursuit of nuclear capability is not resolved. More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – April 1 2006
Monday, 3 April 2006, 11:12 am | Molesworth and Featherston
The signs are almost imperceptible but the tide has changed in analysts’ confidence about the economy. The sharemarket has been surging, mainly because the Reserve Bank looks much more likely to begin the cycle of interest rate decreases later this year. More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – March 25 2006
Monday, 27 March 2006, 11:11 am | Molesworth and Featherston
The economy was near as darn it to a minor recession in the last six months of last year. Economists say a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth - we missed by the smallest possible margin. Figures released on Friday showed the ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – March 10 2006
Friday, 10 March 2006, 1:37 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
Treasury in its monthly update to finance ministers has tipped growth to come in weaker in the December quarter than the 0.7 per cent it was predicting at the time of the half-yearly update. Officials informed the Beehive the labour market is easing ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – March 4th 200
Friday, 3 March 2006, 3:35 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
The signs are that David Benson-Pope will hang on to his job. Helen Clark has not given any indication she will drop him. The week ends with the opposition having over-reached in parliament. First Rodney Hide announced he would go to the police. ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – Feb. 18 2006
Monday, 20 February 2006, 9:49 am | Molesworth and Featherston
The Government has clearly decided that a bit more regulation and laying into some infrastructure providers and regulators is one of the best ways a social-democratic Government, that is not prepared to adopt neo-liberal solutions, can get the economy ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston Weekend: Dec 16 2005
Friday, 16 December 2005, 4:13 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
We’ll put the new NBR poll into the masher next week to wrap up the year. The Colmar Brunton TV1 poll came into the numbers this week showing Labour suffering from a very negative week of Benson-Papal news, and more signs the economy is slowing and ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – Dec. 6th 2005
Saturday, 10 December 2005, 2:56 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
Life is good for households, with continuing income growth and spending. But businesses are concerned about future profits as costs rise faster than prices. Those were the messages from Treasury to ministers in its latest economic update. More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 2nd Dec. 2005
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 1:57 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
The kiwi dollar is touching 95 cents Australian and it’s over seventy US cents again, driven by a simple rule of economics - when more people want to buy something, its price goes up. Overseas holders of cash want to buy our currency and stash their ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – November 25
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:32 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
At last, some serious action in our rolling poll of polls with two new sets of data, including one from TVNZ showing National leaping ahead. Given that the last TV One poll just two days before the election gave National a six point lead (and has developed ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 18 Nov. 2005
Friday, 18 November 2005, 4:10 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
The outlook for a successful Doha round in December looks more bleak than ever as Apec leaders gather this weekend. Crucial talks last week were hyped in advance as the ‘do-ordie’ opportunity for the Doha talks. They flopped. Now negotiators are ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 11 Nov. 2005
Friday, 11 November 2005, 3:47 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
The tragic death of co-leader Rod Donald last Sunday morning has left Parliament, the media and the country stunned and saddened in a way that belies his status as a small party player. Partly that reaction is because his death was so sudden and ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 5 November 20
Monday, 7 November 2005, 1:57 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
Updated Report Rolling average poll Updated data to bring in this week’s TNS poll on TV3 shows the importance of the five percent threshold. On these numbers, a Labour-led government would be comfortably reelected and the foreign minister would be out of ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 29 Oct. 2005
Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:21 am | Molesworth and Featherston
With Prime Minister Helen Clark in Papua New Guinea for the Pacific Island Forum till Friday it’s been a relatively quiet week inside the Government as ministers settle into their new offices, and minor parties shuffle around inside the Bowen ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 14 Oct. 2005
Monday, 17 October 2005, 10:13 am | Molesworth and Featherston
It looks like its time to sack some pundits, promote others (yes, okay sunshine! the cheque is in the mail) and rewrite the shape of the incoming Government. Setting aside for now the possibility that National will get Act, United Future, NZ First ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 30 September
Monday, 3 October 2005, 12:58 am | Molesworth and Featherston
With the result of the special vote count due at 11am Saturday talks between party leaders have stopped (although the behind the scenes horse-trading goes on) and cabinet and the party caucuses are taking a break. More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 15 Sept. 2005
Friday, 16 September 2005, 3:07 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
Huge swings from poll to poll have culminated in two, the NZ Herald and TV 3 putting Labour ahead, and one, One News, putting National ahead. Our final pre-election rolling average poll puts National marginally ahead, but with NZ First and United holding ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 10 Sept. 2005
Monday, 12 September 2005, 3:22 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
Last week we called the election for a Labour-led Government, (“put a fork in it, it's done”) only to be jabbed up the backside by a run of polls showing National comfortably ahead. A five point gap to Labour had evaporated over a week, but since ... More >>
Molesworth & Featherston (Weekend) – 26 August '05
Friday, 26 August 2005, 8:59 pm | Molesworth and Featherston
The effect of National's tax policy announcement is partially reflected in the Digipoll and not at all in the NBR one, but even so they give a snapshot of the mountain National was asking that policy to scale. More >>
