06.04.2016 - Kiwi commodities slip in March as dairy sours
After flirting with recovery in February, New Zealand’s commodities sector took a tumble last month as dairy prices fell further. The basket of commodities tracked by ANZ fell 1.3 per cent in March in US dollar terms, taking a turn for the worse following revised growth of 0.5 per cent in February, adjusted from 0.4 per cent. Economists had forecast 0.4 per cent growth for the index, and while beef prices saw gains of 3.1% from the previous month, prices for dairy, New Zealand’s, biggest export sector, plummeted 4.5 per cent, with seafood prices piling on more pain with a fall of 1.6 per cent...............................................Full Article: Source
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