On Thursday, Statistics New Zealand released the Q4 national accounts, which were an absolute shocker. Overall GDP contracted by 0.1% in the December quarter, missing economists’ forecasts of a 0.1% rise. Along with some modest downward revisions to recent history, GDP growth was 0.3% weaker year-on-year than the Reserve were expecting. “In the context of
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