Activity stabilising, inflation contained

The latest updates on activity have left us with a picture of mixed economic…

18 Nov 2024 Weekly Commentary

Trump 2.0

The US 2024 election saw the return of President Trump. It also saw the…

11 Nov 2024 Weekly Commentary

Labour market in focus

In what was a relatively quiet week for domestic data, most interest…

04 Nov 2024 Weekly Commentary

Back in the band!

Our final Economic Overview for 2024 lays out how we see the economy…

29 Oct 2024 Weekly Commentary

The inflation dragon is back in its cave

New Zealand inflation has dropped back inside the RBNZ’s target…

21 Oct 2024 Weekly Commentary

NZ CPI review, Q3 2024

Consumer prices rose by 0.6% in the September quarter…

16 Oct 2024 Economic data and RBNZ

The wait is over

Going into the October RBNZ policy review, the only question was the…

14 Oct 2024 Weekly Commentary

NZ CPI preview, Q3 2024

We estimate that New Zealand consumer prices rose by 0.7%...

11 Oct 2024 Economic data and RBNZ

RBNZ October 2024 Monetary Policy Review

Today the RBNZ cut the OCR by 50bps to 4.75%, meeting Westpac…

09 Oct 2024 Economic data and RBNZ

What are you waiting for?

We’ve made some significant adjustments to our forecasts for the OCR…

07 Oct 2024 Weekly Commentary

OCR call change and preview of RBNZ October 2024 Monetary Policy Review

We now expect the RBNZ to cut the OCR by 50bps to 4.75% at the…

02 Oct 2024 Economic data and RBNZ

Will the RBNZ be ‘slow and steady’ or ‘fast and furious’?

The RBNZ has now fired the starting gun on the easing cycle. But how…

30 Sep 2024 Weekly Commentary