The business community is feeling downbeat
	The business community is feeling downbeat
    
	
    
	
	5 July 2022 
		
		
        
	
Business confidence is back down to March 2020 levels, with 62 percent of businesses expecting economic conditions to deteriorate.
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research Principal Economist Christina Leung  says worker shortages are troubling Kiwi firms.
She says  border restrictions loosening could change that.
Leung says the skill shortages could start to be alleviated.
	
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