Economic reports archive.

NZ Building Work Q2 2013 Review

Building work put in place fell 0.4% in the June quarter, losing some of the...

04 Sep 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

World milk prices continue to defy gravity. This comes as a genuine surprise...

04 Sep 2013 Agri

New Zealand’s terms of trade are booming. Dairy will steal all the headlines...

02 Sep 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Last week’s developments did little to change our thinking on the New Zealand...

02 Sep 2013 Weekly Commentary

In this article we review four international case studies of macroprudential tools...

28 Aug 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

The Reserve Bank headed into the unknown last week, intervening in the housing...

26 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

Overall, world dairy prices are back where they started following the Fonterra whey...

21 Aug 2013 Agri

The Reserve Bank has placed a limit on the proportion of home loans at high...

20 Aug 2013 Research papers

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

19 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

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

14 Aug 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

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

12 Aug 2013 Weekly Commentary

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

12 Aug 2013 Housing