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Last week saw the delivery of the Government’s first Wellbeing Budget...

04 Jun 2019 Weekly Commentary

NZ Budget First Impressions, May 2019

The Government has substantially increased its planned operational spending...

30 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

New Zealand Government Budget 2019

The Budget boosted spending on mental health and indexed benefits to wage...

30 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

Game changer

The New Zealand economy lost some momentum in the second half of last year...

27 May 2019 Weekly Commentary

Wellbeing, well what?

This week the Government reveals its much vaunted Wellbeing Budget...

27 May 2019 Research papers

NZ Budget Preview, May 2019

Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivers his much vaunted “Wellbeing Budget”...

24 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ retail sales, March quarter 2019

Retail spending rose by 0.7% in the March quarter. That was another solid gain...

22 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

The run of price increases at the past 11 consecutive GlobalDairyTrade auctions...

22 May 2019 Agri

Economic Overview: Game changer

The dramatic decline in interest rates over the past few months is going to be a...

21 May 2019 Economic Overview

It won’t happen overnight

The housing market continued to cool in April. However, we expect to see it picking...

20 May 2019 Weekly Commentary

One and done

As expected the RBNZ cut the Official Cash Rate to a record low of 1.5% last week...

13 May 2019 Weekly Commentary

That’s all, folks – Update on Westpac’s OCR forecast

Today we are reaffirming our forecast that the RBNZ will keep the OCR on hold at...

10 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ