Economic reports archive.

Home Truths

This month Home Truths marvels at the way New Zealand’s housing market has...

14 Aug 2015 Housing

In our last Economic Overview we argued that the outlook had changed...

11 Aug 2015 Economic Overview

Developments over the past week have added to signs that momentum in the...

10 Aug 2015 Weekly Commentary

June quarter labour market data have added to signs that the economy has lost...

05 Aug 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Dairy prices took another pounding in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...

05 Aug 2015 Agri

The June indicators provide further evidence that the domestic economy is softening...

04 Aug 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Last week Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler delivered a speech titled...

03 Aug 2015 Weekly Commentary

The Canterbury rebuild has peaked. Demand for construction workers in Canterbury...

03 Aug 2015 Research papers

We expect the unemployment rate to rise to 5.9% in June as demand for workers...

31 Jul 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Last week the Reserve Bank reduced the OCR a quarter of a percentage point to...

27 Jul 2015 Weekly Commentary

As expected, the RBNZ cut the OCR 25 basis points and signalled further cuts...

23 Jul 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

The past nine months has been absolutely extraordinary for the housing market...

22 Jul 2015 Housing