NZ business confidence rockets to 20-year high, lifting jobs, profits, investment

NZ business confidence rockets to 20-year high, lifting jobs, profits, investment
Jan. 14 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand business confidence climbed to a 20-year high in the fourth quarter, lifting expectations for profits, hiring and investments, and raising the prospects for inflation to start to accelerate. A net 52 percent of businesses were optimistic in the December quarter, seasonally adjusted, the highest since June 1994 and up from 33 percent three months earlier, which was itself the highest in more than three years, according to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion....