Economic reports archive.

The horns of a dilemma

The RBNZ reiterated its ‘on hold’ outlook for the OCR last week, but threw markets...

18 Mar 2013 Weekly Commentary

Consumer confidence fell by a smidgen. Current conditions improved further...

18 Mar 2013 Confidence surveys

The RBNZ reiterated the “on hold” outlook for the OCR in today’s Monetary Policy...

14 Mar 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

The New Zealand economy is gaining momentum. The rebuild effort in...

11 Mar 2013 Weekly Commentary

We expect the RBNZ to repeat its simple “on hold” outlook for the OCR...

08 Mar 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

The Reserve Bank is close to finalising its suite of macroprudential policy tools...

04 Mar 2013 Research papers

Regular readers will know that we have long been optimistic about New Zealand’s...

04 Mar 2013 Weekly Commentary

New Zealand’s terms of trade clocked up its sixth consecutive fall in Q4...

01 Mar 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

Drought has been declared in Northland. The rest of the North Island is also very dry...

01 Mar 2013 Research papers

Private sector credit growth slowed a little in January. However that headline masks...

28 Feb 2013 Economic data and RBNZ

In a week that was light on domestic developments, the highlight was a speech...

25 Feb 2013 Weekly Commentary

The January round of data portrayed a housing market that has continued...

25 Feb 2013 Housing