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Government bonds rally on optimism

Tue, 24 Apr 2012

Locally, economic news over the March quarter painted a picture of steady but unspectacular recovery. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3% in the last quarter of 2011, but over the same quarter our Terms of Trade fell slightly and GDP growth was reported to be only 0.3%, which was at the lower end of expectations.   Read more »

Bonds rise despite “risk on” trade dominating markets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012
Locally it was announced that the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 6.3% in fourth quarter 2011 and that retail sales in the same period surged 2.2% quarter on quarter.   Read more »

Bond markets positively chirpy in January

Fri, 17 Feb 2012
New Zealand government bond yields closed January slightly higher across the curve from the previous month. There were few, if any, signs of progress towards a resolution of the crisis in Europe but e...   Read more »

The ECB rides to the rescue

Fri, 27 Jan 2012
Once again events offshore overshadowed any local developments in the final quarter of 2011. Europe dominated the financial headlines as the focus shifted from so-called peripheral countries to more s...   Read more »

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