Economic reports archive.
Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Consumers’ economic confidence rose in the March quarter, recovering some of the...
Remain in a holding pattern
In this week’s report we set out our reasoning for a downgrade to our OCR...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence rose over the past three months and is once again...
NZ GDP review, Q4 2014
GDP grew by 0.8% in the December 2014, in line with market expectations and slightly...
NZ current account review, Q4 2014
The current account deficit widened to 3.3% of GDP in the year to December 2014...
Fortnightly Agri Update
The revival in dairy prices came to a halt in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...
Keep it simple
Last week’s Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) was more focused than usual on...
Home Truths
There has been a decidedly mixed tenor to housing market data recently...
Notes from Dominick Stephens' tour of Europe
I recently returned from two weeks visiting customers in the United Kingdom and...
Keep it simple - RBNZ MPS review
The Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged at 3.50% and signalled that it has no...
NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q4 2014
We estimate that GDP rose by 0.7% in the December quarter, led by continued...
RBNZ taking centre stage
It’s all eyes on the RBNZ right now. The past week saw the release of their latest...