Economic reports archive.
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Last week saw the delivery of the Government’s first Wellbeing Budget...
NZ Budget First Impressions, May 2019
The Government has substantially increased its planned operational spending...
New Zealand Government Budget 2019
The Budget boosted spending on mental health and indexed benefits to wage...
Game changer
The New Zealand economy lost some momentum in the second half of last year...
Wellbeing, well what?
This week the Government reveals its much vaunted Wellbeing Budget...
NZ Budget Preview, May 2019
Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivers his much vaunted “Wellbeing Budget”...
NZ retail sales, March quarter 2019
Retail spending rose by 0.7% in the March quarter. That was another solid gain...
NZ Dairy Update
The run of price increases at the past 11 consecutive GlobalDairyTrade auctions...
Economic Overview: Game changer
The dramatic decline in interest rates over the past few months is going to be a...
It won’t happen overnight
The housing market continued to cool in April. However, we expect to see it picking...
One and done
As expected the RBNZ cut the Official Cash Rate to a record low of 1.5% last week...
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...