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November PSI reading: services sector expanding
New Zealand’s services sector recorded expansion on November, according to the BNZ-BusinessNZ Performance of Service Index (PSI).Last month’s PSI was 51.2 – a reading above 50 indicates that the service sector is generally expanding; below 50 that it is declining.November’s readi...
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