Economic Overview: The good oil

As we developed this Economic Overview, two powerful themes pervaded our...

10 Feb 2015 Economic Overview

Staying on course

Following recent sharp falls in oil prices and the related softening in the inflation...

09 Feb 2015 Weekly Commentary

Q4 labour market review

Although unemployment unexpectedly rose in December, conditions in the labour...

04 Feb 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

The emerging drought in New Zealand is now clearly having an effect on dairy...

04 Feb 2015 Agri

A new tack

For some time the big story in the world of economics has been plunging global oil...

02 Feb 2015 Weekly Commentary

Q4 labour market preview

The robust domestic economy is supporting increases in employment. But it is also...

30 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

RBNZ OCR review, January 2015

The Reserve Bank has abandoned any talk of OCR hikes, and is now ambivalent...

29 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

The tide has turned

Last week’s December quarter 2014 Consumer Price Index (CPI) was softer than...

27 Jan 2015 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ OCR preview

We now expect inflation to remain below 1% until late-2015, and the Reserve Bank to...

22 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Grow NZ survey results

Prepared by Nexus Planning & Research...

22 Jan 2015 Research papers

NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q4 2014

Consumer price inflation was even softer than expected in the December...

21 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

At the end of last year we drew attention to the emerging risk of another drought...

21 Jan 2015 Agri