While businesses continue to grapple with post-election uncertainty, the chief economist of our largest bank says the economic recovery is carrying on.
Unemployment's reached its highest point in more than a decade.
But ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner says the broader recovery remains intact for now. It's driven by meat, diary and international tourism exports, and manufacturing.
She told Mike Hosking firms are telling them they're going to invest and employ.
Zollner says it's not just pie-in-the-sky optimism, more and more firms are telling them that they're doing better than they were a year ago.
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