Economic reports archive.

Fortnightly Agri Update

Interest rates are important for farmers, both directly in terms of borrowing costs...

22 Aug 2018 Agri

The pieces of the puzzle that we laid out in past Economic Overviews are now falling...

21 Aug 2018 Economic Overview

After digesting the latest Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank...

20 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

The latest housing market data suggests the market remains locked in a fairly subdued...

15 Aug 2018 Housing

We have changed our OCR forecast for the first time in a year. We now expect the...

14 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

As expected, the Reserve Bank repeated its line that the OCR will stay low...

13 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

The RBNZ has (finally) accepted the reality that the economy has slowed this year...

09 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

While prices for most of the agricultural products New Zealand produces have...

08 Aug 2018 Agri

Business confidence surveys are painting an increasingly dismal picture of the state...

06 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

At next week’s Monetary Policy Statement, the RBNZ will probably repeat that it...

02 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Jobs and wage growth strengthened in the June quarter, despite a slight uptick...

01 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Over the past week we’ve seen more evidence that the economy slowed in the...

30 Jul 2018 Weekly Commentary