Preview of the business sentiment data (for April) from NZ due at 0100GMT

Business confidence is likely to get a boost (there is big BUT on this …. wait for it) from the New Zealand government announcing it had decided to abandon its capital gains tax plan:

The 'but' is that most of the responses to the ANZ survey were received before the announcement. So, while its a positive it'll not have much impact on the survey results announced today, but will for May.

Recent business confidence numbers from the survey have remined very weak.

Preview of the business sentiment data (for April) from NZ due at 0100GMT