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title: NZIER’s QSBO shows signs of capacity pressures easing in the New Zealand economy - Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, April 2023
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# [NZIER’s QSBO shows signs of capacity pressures easing in the New Zealand economy - Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, April 2023](https://www.nzier.org.nz/news/nziers-qsbo-shows-signs-of-capacity-pressures-easing-in-the-new-zealand-economy)

 Written by [The NZIER Team](https://www.nzier.org.nz/news/author/the-nzier-team) | April 03, 2023

The latest NZIER *Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion* (QSBO) showed some positive developments, with both business confidence and firms’ own trading activity recovering slightly from the weak level seen in the December quarter.

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