NZ data - Card Spending for December … misses

  • Total card spending -0.6% m/m (prior +1.0%)

  • Retail card spending -0.8% m/m (expected +0.1%, prior +2.6%)

More:

  • spending in the core retail industries fell 0.9 %

Card spending covers just under 70% of core retails sales in NZ and provides the main measure of retails sales monthly.

Not a great report then, and for December too … but NZD not phased, up a few tics.