(Looking) back (and) to the future

Our Australian cousins provided us with a useful benchmark last week with...

07 Sep 2020 Weekly Commentary

NZ Dairy Update

Dairy auction prices fell for the third successive auction overnight. We note that...

02 Sep 2020 Agri

Riding the (second) wave

New Zealand is into its third week of heightened Covid Alert status...

31 Aug 2020 Weekly Commentary

Monthly Meat Matters

A stark divergence has opened up across economies in the wake of Covid-19...

27 Aug 2020 Agri

New tricks

The Reserve Bank continues to favour a negative Official Cash Rate as the next...

24 Aug 2020 Weekly Commentary

NZ Dairy Update

Dairy auction prices fell modestly overnight. The recent Covid-19 resurgence across...

19 Aug 2020 Agri

Economic Overview: Rolling with the Covid punches

Health authorities have learned a lot about Covid-19, such as the value of wearing...

19 Aug 2020 Economic Overview

COVID returns to Aotearoa

COVID has returned and with it lockdown, although with regional variation this time...

17 Aug 2020 Weekly Commentary

The return of COVID-19 to New Zealand

Nobody knows how the re-emergence of Covid-19 will play out. This bulletin...

14 Aug 2020 Economic data and RBNZ

End of the line for the LSAP – Review of RBNZ August MPS

Like us, the RBNZ does not think that the medium-term outlook for the economy...

12 Aug 2020 Economic data and RBNZ

New Zealand bucking the trend

Last week’s labour market reports reiterated what we have been saying for weeks...

10 Aug 2020 Weekly Commentary

Stay on target – Preview of RBNZ MPS, August 2020

The RBNZ will aim to keep the stance of monetary policy unchanged at next...

06 Aug 2020 Economic data and RBNZ