New Zealand March business confidence -43.4% vs. -43.3% in February | Forexlive

ANZ New Zealand business survey

• business confidence -43.4% vs. -43.3% in February
• activity outlook -8.5%% vs. -9.5% in February

ANZ comments on the key themes of the March survey:

• Retail, construction and agriculture respondents were generally more
  upbeat, while manufacturing and services firms became more
  pessimistic.
  
• The headline inflation and pricing indicators eased a smidgen (figure 2).
  Pricing intentions have turned downwards the most convincingly (while
  still being problematically high), but inflation expectations are finally
  starting to look as though they may have turned lower too. The net
  proportion of firms experiencing higher costs remains extremely high.