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Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
UNLOCKING NZ: Business leaders on preparing for the end of lockdown
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Pattrick Smellie: UNLOCKING NZ: Business leaders on preparing for the end of lockdown

UPDATED SATURDAY NOON - Amid cautious signs that the national lockdown will be able to start lifting at the four week mark, BusinessDesk asks business leaders what needs to happen in the next two weeks to ensure that the economic restart is as smooth as possible:gary taylor.jfif...

Pattrick Smellie 08 Apr 2020
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BRIAN GAYNOR: What about an ANZAC tourism bubble?
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Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: What about an ANZAC tourism bubble?

Managing the economy out of the lockdown will be a more difficult process than the original lockdown decision.The exit process can be compared with slowly releasing air from a balloon with the released air being the oxygen that feeds the economy.If the air is let out too quickly...

Brian Gaynor 06 Apr 2020
PATTRICK SMELLIE: A critical week for the lockdown
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Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: A critical week for the lockdown

This will be a critical week for the government and for the covid-19 lockdown.Wednesday will mark the mid-point of the 28-day national confinement and, by then, if the current stable trends in infection rates continue, the clamour for relaxation will be intense.The important tren...

Pattrick Smellie 06 Apr 2020
BRIAN GAYNOR: A dramatic quarter but what’s ahead?
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Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: A dramatic quarter but what’s ahead?

The first quarter of the year was a dramatic time for investors with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 23.2 percent, its third worst quarter in the past 100 years.The worst two were the December 1929 quarter, when the Dow declined 27.7 percent, and the December 1987 quarte...

Brian Gaynor 03 Apr 2020