Economic reports archive.

Fortnightly Agri Update

Last week Westpac Economics released an Industry Insight report on the...

06 Apr 2016 Agri

The indicators for February provided more evidence of a slow start to the year for...

05 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Businesses reported solid results over the last three months, suggesting some...

05 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Last week, two separate confidence surveys reconfirmed our view that a dichotomy...

04 Apr 2016 Weekly Commentary

Employment confidence improved further in the March quarter, and now sits a little...

04 Apr 2016 Confidence surveys

Dairy’s woes have re-emerged as the major factor affecting regional economic...

30 Mar 2016 Confidence surveys

The Fishing, Aquaculture and Seafood sector is experiencing falling employment...

30 Mar 2016 Industry

This week we take a closer look at the outlook for household spending, which was...

29 Mar 2016 Weekly Commentary

The New Zealand economy put in a reasonable performance over the second...

21 Mar 2016 Weekly Commentary

Consumer confidence nudged down in the early part of 2016 as households...

21 Mar 2016 Confidence surveys

The current account deficit narrowed to 3.1% of GDP in the year to December, the lowest...

16 Mar 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Dairy prices slid further in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction. The headline...

16 Mar 2016 Agri