The ANZ Enterprise Confidence climbed to -26.4 in November from -42.four in October. Agriculture and retail sectors demonstrated the greatest enchancment. The report commented on the rise of the confidence index:
Whereas nonetheless not a nice stage, that is the highest learn this 12 months.
In the meantime, geopolitical tensions between the United States and China heated up after US President Donald Trump signed laws that formally helps Hong-Kong protesters. China condemned the transfer as an intervention in its inside affairs. The New Zealand greenback, being thought-about a commodity foreign money and due to this fact extra inclined to financial and geopolitical dangers tends to carry out poorly in a risk-averse setting. Unfavorable information relating to China is particularly unhealthy to the foreign money as the Asian nation is the greatest buying and selling companion of New Zealand.
The subsequent week might be extraordinarily gentle in phrases of macroeconomic releases in New Zealand. Subsequently, the New Zealand foreign money might be pushed principally by world…