New Zealand business mood brightens as Covid-19 contained
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[SYDNEY] New Zealand business sentiment brightened in October as success in containing the Covid-19 outbreak in the country allowed the economy to re-open and activity to pick up from very depressed levels, an ANZ Bank survey showed on Thursday.
The survey's headline measure showed a net 15.7 per cent of respondents expected the economy to deteriorate over the year ahead, an improvement from 28.5 per cent in September.
A net 4.7 per cent of respondents expected their own businesses to improve in the next 12 months, a marked turnaround from September when 5.4 per cent expected conditions to worsen.
Construction was the most optimistic sector, while agriculture and retail were the most downbeat.
REUTERS
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