Economic Weekly: US Fed and Trump to dominate
- The manufacturing survey released earlier this morning suggests NZ Q1 GDP will be in the vicinity of 0.4% qoq growth.
- Electronic card transactions (Tuesday) and the BusinessNZ PMI survey will give insights into how NZ is faring in Q2.
- Meanwhile, the key global events are Thursday’s monetary policy decisions from the US FOMC and ECB and anything Donald Trump tweets on trade and North Korea.
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Mark Smith
Senior Economist
Mark joined ASB in 2017, with over 20 years of public and private sector experience working as an economist in New Zealand and the UK.
His resume includes lengthy stints at ANZ and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and he has also worked at the Bank of England, HM Treasury and the New Zealand Transport Agency. Mark's areas of specialisation include interest rate strategy, macro-economic analysis and urban economics.
Born and bred in the Waikato, Mark studied at Waikato University where he graduated with a Master of Social Sciences, majoring in Economics.
Mark's key strengths are the ability to use his extensive experience, inquisitive nature, analytical ability, creativity and pragmatism to dig a little deeper and to deliver common sense solutions to tackle complex problems.
When not at work Mark likes to travel, keep fit and spend time with his friends and family.
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