Kiwi economy moves out of recession

The past week saw a relatively heavy data flow in New Zealand…

24 Mar 2025 Weekly Commentary

NZ GDP review, Q4 2024

The New Zealand economy grew by 0.7% in the December quarter…

20 Mar 2025 Economic data and RBNZ

Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence has taken a step down in the early part of the year…

19 Mar 2025 Confidence surveys

Goodbye to 2024, and good riddance

This week brings the last major economic data release relating to 2024…

17 Mar 2025 Weekly Commentary

Retail Spending Pulse

Retail spending is starting to pick up again, but the recovery remains…

14 Mar 2025 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ GDP preview, Q4 2024

We expect a 0.5% rise in GDP for the December 2024 quarter, following sharp…

12 Mar 2025 Economic data and RBNZ

A change at the top at the RBNZ

This week Adrian Orr announced that he is stepping down…

10 Mar 2025 Weekly Commentary

On firmer footing

The latest updates on the New Zealand economy have been encouraging…

03 Mar 2025 Weekly Commentary

NZ Agri Bites

Our outlook for soft commodity prices is little changed from last month…

28 Feb 2025 Agri

RBNZ delivers no surprises

The focus for New Zealand financial markets last week was the outcome…

24 Feb 2025 Weekly Commentary

Review of RBNZ February 2025 Monetary Policy Statement

As widely anticipated, the RBNZ cut the OCR by 50bps to 3.75%...

19 Feb 2025 Economic data and RBNZ

A sustainable marine sector - Why New Zealand needs to transition to a blue economy

The marine economy refers to activities within and across sub-sectors…

18 Feb 2025 Research papers, Industry