Economic reports archive.
NZ labour market review chart pack, Q3 2025
The Q3 labour market surveys were generally as subdued as we were expecting…
Running rough
Last week we released our final Economic Overview for 2025 with…
NZ labour market preview, Q3 2025
We expect the unemployment rate to rise from 5.2% to 5.3% for the September quarter…
GDP insights, October 2025
Quarterly GDP growth has been unusually volatile in recent times…
3% inflation not a barrier to another RBNZ rate cut
Inflation in New Zealand has picked up again, rising to 3% in the year…
Economic conditions still soggy
The New Zealand economy is still looking sluggish. The latest updates…
NZ CPI preview, Q3 2025
We estimate that New Zealand consumer prices rose by 1.0% in the September…
Breaking the spell
The Reserve Bank delivered the 50bps OCR cut that we were expecting…
RBNZ October 2025 Monetary Policy Review
As we expected, the RBNZ cut the OCR by 50bps to 2.50%...
NZ Agri Bites
We have maintained our farmgate milk price forecast of $10.00/kg for this season…
Getting the OCR to where it needs to be
The key market-moving event over the week ahead is likely to be the RBNZ…
Preview of RBNZ October 2025 Monetary Policy Review
We expect the RBNZ to cut the OCR by 50bp to 2.5% at its October meeting…