The slimmed-down labour market release suggests that employment growth weakened a little in the second quarter. The RBNZ will be more worried, however, to see that there is still no sign of inflationary pressure in the labour market. This makes it even more likely that it will cut interest rates to 2.0% at next Thursday’s policy meeting.
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