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It was raining and hailing and windy here, but it looked like a decent day down in Queenstown.
I really enjoyed that and obviously you know Kiwi won so that was that was really good and yeah lots of sport NRL yeah I always really look forward to that I somehow sort of find myself slopping more towards being a rugby league fan than necessarily a rugby union fan so don't know what to don't know what to make of that but that's that's the way it seems to be going and yeah over in Vegas so it was pretty cool it seems to be a great spectacle that um so
Yeah, I don't know.
Plenty going on in a weekend that actually sounds really quiet.
Hi, going good.
How are you?
Just to say I'm also in Auckland on Thursday at a real estate conference.
So yeah, that'll be interesting.
Get some of that chat from the front line.
I guess what they're seeing in terms of activity, whether there's any sort of clear evidence of upturn there.
So yeah, it'll be a good one.
Well, yeah, but for everyone is the way I'm sort of summing this up.
I mean, you know, a lot of things were sort of, obviously the OCR itself was left unchanged, but a lot of the economic forecasts were sort of as anticipated as well.
They've got economic growth coming back, you know, GDP rising about 3% this year, kind of pretty standard forecast.
employment growth coming through, the unemployment rate edging lower.
They've got that going down to about 5% by the end of the year.
So that's sort of the vibe is similar to last time.
They said probably think that CPI inflation is back within the target already in the current quarter.
So, you know, a temporary kind of rise above 3% tail end of last year, back probably within target right now.
So yeah, lots of