New Zealand Annual Retail Sales

Retail Sales in New Zealand increased 3.40 percent in March of 2012 over the same month in the previous year. Historically, from 1996 until 2012, New Zealand Annual Retail Sales averaged 3.9600 Percent reaching an all time high of 10.8000 Percent in March of 2004 and a record low of -6.9000 Percent in February of 2009. A Retail sales report provides an aggregated measure of sales of retail goods over a specific time period. Retail sales are both seasonal and volatile and their importance to the overall gross domestic product varies with each country. However, the retail sales data is widely followed by investors because is only a few weeks old. This page includes a chart with historical data for New Zealand Annual Retail Sales.


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New Zealand Annual Retail Sales


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The Retail Sales report is an aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a certain period. Usually, the Retail sales report is based on a data sampling that is extrapolated to model an entire country. Generally, the retail sales report not only captures store sales, catalogue sales and other out of store sales but also breaks down sales figures into groups like food and beverages, clothing, and autos. The Retail sales report is one of the timeliest economic reports, providing data that is only a few weeks old. The most popular measure of retail sales is month over month, where the volume of retail sales in certain month is compared to the previous month. However, some countries prefer the year over year measure where the certain month is compared to the same month a year ago thus accounting for seasonality and other oscillations in retail sales data.



NEW ZEALAND NEWS

New Zealand Trade Surplus Widens in April
Published: 5/24/2012 3:25:32 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand trade balance for April 2012 was a surplus of $355 million (9.1 percent of exports). For the year ended April 2012, there was an annual trade deficit of $541 million (1.2 percent of exports).

New Zealand Uneployment Up to 6.7 in Q1
Published: 5/3/2012 6:15:24 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent in the March 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said on May 3rd. This is up from a revised figure of 6.4 percent last quarter. The labour force grew by 18,000, with 9,000 more people employed as well as 9,000 more people unemployed in the March 2012 quarter.

New Zealand Reports Trade Surplus in February
Published: 3/28/2012 6:06:04 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
In February 2012, there was a trade surplus of $161 million (4.5 percent of exports). This compares with an average surplus of 6.1 percent of exports over the previous five February months, although there was a deficit in February 2007.

New Zealand Economy Grows 0.3% in Q4
Published: 3/22/2012 10:54:32 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
The New Zealand economy grew by 0.3 percent in the December 2011 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said on March 22nd. This latest result follows economic growth of 0.7 percent in the September 2011 quarter.

New Zealand Leaves Rate Unchanged
Published: 3/8/2012 12:26:44 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, RBNZ
The Reserve Bank left on March 8th, the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 2.5 percent.

New Zealand Reports Trade Deficit in January
Published: 2/29/2012 1:16:56 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
In January 2012, the value of exported goods rose $430 million (13 percent), to $3.7 billion. Imported goods rose $637 million (19 percent), to $3.9 billion.

New Zealand Reports Trade Surplus in December
Published: 2/2/2012 2:29:02 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
In December 2011, New Zealand reported a trade surplus equivalent to $338 million (7.8 percent of exports). This compares with an average deficit of 5.2 percent of exports over the previous five December months.

New Zealand Inflation Down to 1.8% in Q4
Published: 1/19/2012 7:18:29 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
In the year to the December 2011 quarter the CPI rose 1.8 percent. This compares with a 4.6 percent rise for the year to the September 2011 quarter. Unlike the previous four quarters, the latest annual increase does not include most of the effects of the GST increase that occurred in October 2010.

New Zealand Exports Rises in November
Published: 1/9/2012 6:00:30 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
In the November 2011 month compared with the November 2010 month, the value of exported goods increased $251 million (6.8 percent) to $3.9 billion. The trend for export values remains at record-high levels.

New Zealand GDP Up 0.8% in Q3
Published: 12/22/2011 1:05:40 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand Gross domestic product was up 0.8 percent in the September 2011 quarter, following a 0.1 percent increase in the June 2011 quarter. The increase in the latest quarter is the fourth consecutive quarter of growth following a decline of 0.1 percent in the September 2010 quarter.

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