by Warren Head | Mar 21, 2024 | Economy, Featured, Free, Latest News
21.3.24 The New Zealand economy contracted 0.1% q/q in the fourth quarter of calendar 2023. A little weaker than Westpac’s forecast of +0.1% and a technical recession at year-end. “But this isn’t your run-of-the-mill run-for-the-hills recession that we’ve seen through...
by Warren Head | Mar 17, 2024 | Featured, Market Commentary
17.3.24 Warren Head The penny has dropped down under. There has been a lot of money sloshing in the wrong direction in both the NZ and Australian markets and economies. Inflation has leapt up and bitten us right across the rump of the economy from the price of coffee,...
by Warren Head | Mar 9, 2024 | Featured, Market Commentary
9.3.24 Warren Head A handful of small caps filled the ranks of the rising stocks in a more positive week for the national sharemarket but it was the heavyweight stocks that did the heavy lifting. The NZX50 climbed very close to the 12,000 milestone this week,...
by Warren Head | Mar 2, 2024 | Featured, Free, NZ Market Daily Report
2.3.23 WARREN HEAD The national sharemarket seems evenly poised at present between opposite forces of a sluggish economy and a buying window for the bold. The just completed flood of half-year results from listed NZX companies (along with a clutch of full year results...
by Warren Head | Feb 24, 2024 | Featured, Free, Market Commentary
The pace of economic momentum is descending into a hair-pin ahead 24.2.24 WARREN HEAD The tentative advance of share prices on the New Zealand market this week should be viewed as encouraging – considering that the economy has become a significant...
by Warren Head | Feb 17, 2024 | Featured, Market Commentary
17.2.24 WARREN HEAD The opening week of the half-year report season has underscored the tapering off of business demand as the NZ economy steps through a down-cycle. Last week’s sprinkle of December half year results was enough to show a real disparity. Amongst these...
