By Lucy Craymer

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -The hit to New Zealand confidence caused by global uncertainty will fade as businesses get used to a time of heightened economic policy unpredictability, the chief economist at the country’s central bank said on Friday.

Paul Conway, chief economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, said the confidence shock will pass and business will “just get on with it.”

“I fully expect uncertainty to persist into the future but to some extent, we get used to it,” Conway told Reuters in an interview. “We can’t sort of wait and see what’s going to happen…forever,” he said.

He added the central bank’s decision to cut the cash rate by 25 bps this week to 3.0% and flag further cuts was encouraging businesses to get on with it.

At its decision on Wednesday, the ce

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