HiFX Data Update - NZ ANZ Business Confidence release

Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 1:28 pm
Press Release: HiFX

The ANZ Business Confidence figures for February have just been released.

The figures were showed improvement compared with the previous month.

The Business Confidence came stronger -19.0% in Feb v -37.8 % in Jan

Firms’ own activity outlook was +20.4% in Feb v 15.6% in Jan

The NZD is a little lower in immediate response.

Current indicative levels are:

NZDUSD 0.7215 / 0.7240
NZDAUD 0.9260 / 0.9285
NZDEUR 0.5895 / 0.5920
NZDGBP 0.5185 / 0.5210
NZDJPY 77.50 / 77.75

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