New Zealanders' confidence in financial markets improves: FMA survey

By Paul McBeth
May 29 (BusinessDesk) - Almost two-thirds of New Zealanders have confidence in the country's capital markets, up from just over half last year, a Financial Markets Authority survey shows.
Five percent of 1,000 people surveyed by Colmar Brunton are very confident in financial markets and a further 60 percent are fairly confident, up from 3 percent and 53 percent a year earlier, the survey shows. That rises to a combined 69 percent for the 891 people identifying as investors, up from 59 percent in 2016. Non-investors were st...
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