The house rules

A household-centric week of local data has reinforced our view that the...

19 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

Q2 Retail Sales Review

Retail sales volumes rose 1.7% in the June quarter, lifting the annual growth...

14 Aug 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Keep calm and carry on

There are still many unknowns around the Fonterra whey product contamination...

12 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

Home Truths

This month, Home Truths ponders how the New Zealand housing market might react...

12 Aug 2013 Housing

Q2 Labour market review

As expected, the headline Household Labour Force Survey saw modest ‘pay-back’...

07 Aug 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

In light of the contamination issue, the auction results for Fonterra could have...

07 Aug 2013 Agri

Economic Overview: Fork in the road

New Zealand’s economic upturn is now well-established, and is showing signs...

06 Aug 2013 Economic Overview

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rawhide

Last Thursday we released our Quarterly Economic Overview where we detailed how...

05 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

Q2 Labour market preview

Statistics NZ is now publishing all three main labour market reports in one go...

02 Aug 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Credit Check

Private sector credit growth slowed a little in June on the back of surprisingly weak...

31 Jul 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Crossing the Rubicon

The Reserve Bank’s stance on monetary policy has come into line with our...

29 Jul 2013 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

SPECIAL ISSUE - Upgrade to Westpac’s forecast of the Fonterra Milk Price...

26 Jul 2013 Agri