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Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Consumers’ economic confidence fell in the June quarter to its lowest level in more...
Cuts to come
A surprisingly weak GDP outturn has strengthened the Reserve Bank’s case for...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence fell to 113.0 in the June quarter. This is the lowest level since...
NZ current account review, Q1 2015
The current account deficit widened to 3.6% of GDP in the year to March 2015...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Last week’s unexpected OCR cut has thrust dairying even further into the economic...
An udder surprise
The Reserve Bank has honed in on the woes of the dairy sector, judging that they pose...
Home Truths
Housing data from the month of May suggested that Auckland house price...
RBNZ MPS, June 2015
The Reserve Bank surprised the market by cutting the Official Cash Rate by...
NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q1 2015
We estimate that GDP rose by 0.6% in the March quarter, a slower pace than...
Not so fast
Developments over the past week or two have served to increase the odds of OCR...
Not so fast – a final word before next week's RBNZ MPS
We remain firmly of the view that the RBNZ will leave the OCR on hold next week...
NZ Local Knowledge
The indicators were positive on balance in April, though they were more mixed...