Economic reports archive.

Swings and roundabouts

New Zealand’s housing market is clearly slowing, and retailers ended 2013...

24 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

We have had another round of data confirming that New Zealand’s housing...

20 Feb 2014 Housing

As we’ve noted in recent Fortnightly Agri Updates it is difficult, if not impossible...

19 Feb 2014 Agri

Retail sales rebounded less strongly than expected in the September quarter...

17 Feb 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Last week we published our latest Quarterly Economic Overview, our flagship...

17 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

Over 2013 the New Zealand economy closely followed the narrative we laid out for it at...

11 Feb 2014 Economic Overview

Recent developments – a slowly strengthening New Zealand labour market...

10 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

The labour market continued to strengthen in the December 2013 quarter, with the...

05 Feb 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

High prices for New Zealand’s commodity exports, in particular dairy, have become...

05 Feb 2014 Agri

All eyes were firmly on the Reserve Bank’s January OCR Review last week...

03 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

Labour market indicators suggest there was a further modest improvement in the...

31 Jan 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

The RBNZ left the OCR on hold at 2.5%, and gave a clear signal that the OCR is likely...

30 Jan 2014 Economic data and RBNZ