NZ market braces for key CPI data
Hamilton Hindin Greene’s Grant Williamson said NZ’s quarterly consumer price index (CPI) numbers out tomorrow were the reason for the domestic market’s subdued nature today.
“We’ve seen a reasonable amount of selling on the market and that's really ahead of the inflation figures, which are due out tomorrow morning,” he told BusinessDesk.
NZ’s major banks expect consumer price inflation to abate in the third quarter, with the annual consumer price index (CPI) dipping to between 6.5% and 6.8% – down from 7.3% in the second quarter.
BNZ is picking a 6.5% CPI, as part of a general downturn in the coming quarters, while Kiwibank is projecting consumer prices to rise 1.7% for the quarter and headline CPI coming in at 6.8%.
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