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First Impressions: RBNZ provides crucial market support measures
The RBNZ has stepped up with a range of measures to support financial markets...
Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Regional economic confidence has fallen sharply...
The coming recession: deep, but hopefully brief
The Covid-19 recession will be deeper than the GFC. We expect GDP to decline...
First Impressions: NZ GDP, Q4 2019
GDP increased by 0.5% in the December quarter, with the economy growing by 2.3%...
NZ Dairy Update
Last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction resulted in a decline in the headline price...
First Impressions: NZ Government's Covid-19 support package
The NZ Government has announced a Covid-19 economic support package worth 4%...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
With New Zealand wrestling with the twin headwinds of Coronavirus and drought...
First Impressions: RBNZ cuts by 75bp to 0.25%
The RBNZ cuts the OCR to 0.25% as the economic cost of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Recession inevitable
This week we are issuing a truncated version of the Weekly Commentary with no…
Preview of NZ GDP and current account, Q4 2019
We expect a 0.6% rise in GDP for the December quarter, as the New Zealand...
Intensive care
Over the last two weeks the coronavirus Covid-19 has spread to more countries...
Update on the economic impact of Coronavirus
We are now forecasting 25bps OCR cuts in March and May (previously only March)...