Economic reports archive.

Businesses and households split

The start of 2018 has seen divergent conditions across the New Zealand...

05 Mar 2018 Weekly Commentary

Our latest quarterly Economic Overview comes against a somewhat different...

26 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

Retail sales rose strongly in the final quarter of 2017. We expect spending growth...

23 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Prices for New Zealand’s key agricultural commodity exports remain reasonably...

21 Feb 2018 Agri

There is a saying that it is tougher to forecast the economy than the weather...

20 Feb 2018 Economic Overview

Financial markets are always eager to pick turning points in the economic cycle...

19 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

Following a news article today, we thought we should clarify our thoughts on our GDP...

12 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

As widely expected, the Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged and repeated its...

12 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

As expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated its neutral...

08 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 2008. But wage growth...

07 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Export commodity prices have started 2018 on a firm footing thanks in part to the...

07 Feb 2018 Agri

Last week was fairly quiet, but the week ahead will be huge with a labour market...

05 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary