With responses tending to come in over the first half of the month, today's edition will have at least two of the big GlobalDairyTrade auction price gains under its belt, if not the third successive jump of September 16.
BNZ senior economist Craig Ebert said yesterday there might be a slightly recovered tone in the rural component of the survey.
''Still, it's been more than just agriculture slowing the ANZ survey over recent months.''
A watch would be continued on the survey's inflation gauges, especially to see if the consequences of the lower New Zealand dollar were starting to show through with their usual lag, he said.
There was anecdotal evidence emerging of firms starting to lift prices, either now or in their forward budgets.
That in turn appeared related most of all to exchange rate impacts, rather than the state of the real economy.
The ANZ survey tended to look out over the coming six to 12 months.
For a nearer-term feel for how New Zealand's business sector was doing, the NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion would supply a more immediate view next week.
August's business consents would be released at 10.45am.
It might have been the ''end-of-week rush'' of five Fridays causing July's residential building consents to spike 20%.
A correction was anticipated in the August data, but not a full reversal.
''We'll also cast an eye on non-residential building consents to see if they have firmed back up after a not-so-strong result for July. There are certainly a lot of sizeable commercial building projects loading up on the books, notably in Auckland.
"This will have to compete for resources with the quantum of new home construction being talked about as necessary - again especially in Auckland.''
Later today, the money and credit aggregates were likely to affirm recent themes of. -A strong increase in household credit, in keeping with the housing market.
Rising rural credit, in the context of tough times in the dairy sector.
An ongoing upward creep in general business credit, consistent with a steadily expanding economy.
New residential lending by the registered banking sector in August was reported by the Reserve Bank last Friday as being 48% larger than it was a year ago.
August last year was regarded as a time of caution going into the supposedly tight September election.
Moreover, there seemed to be a greater than normal amount of bank-hopping recently as people chased mortgage deals in the market - which counted in the new lending figures but refinancing with the same bank did not, Mr Ebert said.
''Still, 48% is a massive gain in new residential lending compared to a year ago.''
There was a good chance of seeing a faster increase in the stock of housing numbers for August, when they were published today.
That would come from July's expansion, which was the swiftest post the 2008-09 recession.
And it was not as though it was being driven by banks beginning to test the 10% loan-to-value (LVR) speed limits; far from it, he said.
The proportion of high-LVR bank lending in August eased to just 6.8% of total lending, from 6.6% in July.
The strong advances in household credit were symptomatic of a heated housing market in terms of either sales or prices - depending on the locality - or both when it came to Auckland.
Tomorrow's Quotable Value housing report would be scrutinised for signs of Auckland's market peaking, Canterbury coming off the boil and other parts of the country playing serious catch-up, Mr Ebert said.
September's ANZ commodity export price indices were due at 1pm on Friday and they looked set to end a five-month losing streak in world price terms.
Dairy prices for the ANZ data set might not bounce the full 28% they had on average at the GDT auction, but they were expected to be higher.
''This, and a bounce in aluminium prices in the month, is part of the 5% gain in world prices we have pencilled in for the month.
''A lower New Zealand dollar amplifies the expected monthly gain to about 8%,'' he said.
The data
Today: ANZ business confidence, August building consents, money and credit aggregates, housing stock numbers for August.
Tomorrow: Quotable Value housing report
Friday: ANZ commodity export indices
