In Q1, New Zealand’s business community signaled a stark downturn in confidence, with NZIER business confidence index plunging from -9.9 to -23.7 . This dramatic drop is accompanied by reversal in firms’ trading activity expectations for the coming quarterly, from 6.6 to -11.5, as well as retrospective decline in past three months’ trading activity from […]
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