Economic reports archive.
NZ fiscal accounts, year to June 2018
The Government recorded a much larger than expected surplus in the June 2018...
A winter of discontent?
Business confidence has fallen significantly over the past year. There’s no doubt...
Fortnightly Agri Update
International beef prices are coming under increased pressure on the back of a...
NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, September 2018
NZ business confidence fell further in the September quarter with both the headline...
Let me make this clear
The tone of last week’s Reserve Bank policy statement was a little more dovish...
Cementing the view – OCR Review, Sep 2018
The RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated the key phrases about the OCR...
Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence
Overall confidence in the labour market eased slightly in September...
Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Six of eleven regions posted a deterioration in regional economic confidence...
Trundling along
The economy fared better than expected in the June quarter, and more recent data...
Let’s be frank – RBNZ preview, Sep 2018
We expect the RBNZ will leave the OCR unchanged at next week’s OCR Review...
NZ Q2 GDP review – Better this time
The New Zealand economy grew even faster than expected in the June quarter...
NZ current account, Q2 2018 – Mind the gap
New Zealand’s current account deficit increased to 3.3% of GDP in the year to...