Business Confidence

5 Mar 19, 8:00am

David Hargreaves crunches some numbers on the growing proportion of first home buyers in an uncertain housing market
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Govt to overhaul vocational training sector

8 Feb 19, 8:38am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Ardern warns of slowing global growth, talks up trade, and announces vocational training sector reform to help plug skills shortages in first major economic speech of 2019
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Businesses less gloomy, not more happy

15 Jan 19, 11:05am

Jenée Tibshraeny

35 comments

Business sentiment and demand pick up from low levels in December quarter, according to the NZIER; Weak profitability remains a problem
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Some 'Christmas cheer' in December business confidence survey

18 Dec 18, 4:58pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Business confidence picks up to highest level since April according to ANZ survey; Tight credit conditions seen to be the loosest they've been in more than two years
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This week's guest Top 10

14 Dec 18, 10:12am

Jarrod Kerr

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Jarrod Kerr with the Top 10 things to think about into 2019 from trade wars to yield curve inversion, wage growth, property, Italy and more
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BusinessNZ credits NZ First for softening proposed employment relations law

27 Nov 18, 3:22pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Proposed employment relations law tweaked to give employers a way out of multi-employer collective agreements
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Westpac boss sees bank mortgage competition hotting up

6 Nov 18, 11:51am

David Hargreaves

32 comments

Westpac NZ's David McLean is seeing increased competition between the banks as the spring housing market springs to life
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Say what?! Winston Peters talks approvingly of a whopper bank profit

1 Nov 18, 5:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Winston Peters cites ANZ attributing its $1.99 billion profit partially to the strong economy, as the Govt comes under attack for business confidence remaining in a slump
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Risks-a-plenty dampen economist's growth forecasts

12 Oct 18, 5:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

54 comments

Infometrics' Gareth Kiernan sees enough speed bumps on the horizon to slow economic growth more than the market expects; says it's time for LVRs to be eased
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Another bad survey for the Govt

2 Oct 18, 10:09am

David Hargreaves

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Latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows worst level of business confidence since March 2009
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Steven Joyce on what's causing business confidence to fall

5 Sep 18, 10:31am

Guest

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Steven Joyce: 'Our government is currently rearranging, often negatively, not one or two but nearly every aspect of microeconomic policy'
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Half of all businesses now expecting a downturn

30 Aug 18, 1:38pm

Jason Walls

49 comments

ANZ’s Business Confidence Survey has registered yet another drop, with now 50% of all businesses surveyed expecting a deterioration in business conditions, dollar falls
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A reality check for diehard Nats supporters

29 Aug 18, 7:50am

Jenée Tibshraeny

72 comments

Why Westpac CEO David McLean is right in urging the business community to get over the election result and get on with business
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Ardern eases rhetoric on industrial relations reforms

28 Aug 18, 1:39pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Ardern tries to calm business jitters around industrial reforms by saying no more than two fair pay agreements will be concluded before the next election
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Jacinda Ardern’s latest pitch to woo business won’t work – here’s why

28 Aug 18, 10:44am

Jason Walls

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To her credit, the PM has made numerous attempts to soothe the concerns of business – so far none of them have worked; And Jason Walls says a new Business Council will do nothing to abate business’ concerns
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Business confidence ‘a flashing great neon sign with giant lights & fireworks going off behind it’ – PM

28 Aug 18, 8:33am

Jason Walls

36 comments

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sets up a Business Advisory Council chaired by Air NZ CEO Chris Luxon in the Government's latest attempt to woo the business community
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Hey NZ business leaders – take a look at Australia and the US

26 Aug 18, 7:02am

Jason Walls

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Jason Walls says NZ business leaders should take a look at what’s going on with our allies before filling in their confidence surveys as political turbulence engulfs Australia & the US
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Goldman Sachs reduces its NZ GDP growth forecast

21 Aug 18, 11:18am

Jason Walls

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One of the world’s biggest investment banks cuts its expectations for NZ’s economic growth citing, in part, business confidence – but it is expecting growth to pick back up before too long
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A Top 10 for the weekend

18 Aug 18, 10:02am

Matt Nolan

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Matt Nolan on the top 10 freely available indicators to use to try and figure out what's going on with the New Zealand economic cycle
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What would Simon do?

14 Aug 18, 5:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

33 comments

Simon Bridges on how he would take up John Key's challenge to identify new economic drivers to replace strong migration and house price growth if he was in government
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