Economic reports archive.
Economic Overview: Fork in the road
New Zealand’s economic upturn is now well-established, and is showing signs...
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rawhide
Last Thursday we released our Quarterly Economic Overview where we detailed how...
Q2 Labour market preview
Statistics NZ is now publishing all three main labour market reports in one go...
Credit Check
Private sector credit growth slowed a little in June on the back of surprisingly weak...
Crossing the Rubicon
The Reserve Bank’s stance on monetary policy has come into line with our...
Fortnightly Agri Update
SPECIAL ISSUE - Upgrade to Westpac’s forecast of the Fonterra Milk Price...
OCR Review July 2013
The Reserve Bank has shifted to an explicit hiking bias, its first significant...
OCR Preview July 2013
We expect the RBNZ to retain its “firmly on hold” stance. The RBNZ is unlikely...
As low as it goes
Inflation was just as subdued as expected over the June quarter, with the strong...
Fortnightly Agri Update
World dairy prices rose 4.9% in Tuesday night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...
Q2 CPI Review 2013
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% in the June quarter, in line with...
All those in favour, say “Aye”
The economy has passed its vote of economic confidence...