Economic reports archive.

NZ labour market review, Q3 2017 – Room for more?

The unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low of 4.6% in the September quarter...

01 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

We expect this week’s labour market reports to show a solid rise in employment...

30 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

We expect the gradual strengthening in the labour market to have continued...

25 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

After a period of sharply cooling house prices, the market may well have entered...

25 Oct 2017 Housing

After nearly a month of negotiations, New Zealand finally knows the form of the...

24 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

Labour and New Zealand First have formed a minority coalition government...

20 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

There have been a few developments in the dairy market since our last significant...

18 Oct 2017 Agri

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5% in the September 2017 quarter...

17 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

There is growing evidence that the slowdown in the housing market over the last year...

16 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

The World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Competitiveness Index shows...

13 Oct 2017 Research papers

We expect a 0.5% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the September quarter...

12 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

The latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion indicates that election...

09 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary