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Weaker data signals but markets stay upbeat

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Welcome to Monday’s Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.

I'm David Chaston and this is the international edition from interest.co.nz.

Today we lead with news global financial markets are little-changed at near historic highs even though economic data releases seem to be still giving weaker signals.

This week will be dominated by the Fonterra annual result and dairy payout finalisation, a big dump of RBNZ lending data, and some credit card activity data.

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