Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence

Consumers’ economic confidence rose in the March quarter, recovering some of the...

27 Mar 2015 Confidence surveys

Remain in a holding pattern

In this week’s report we set out our reasoning for a downgrade to our OCR...

23 Mar 2015 Weekly Commentary

Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence rose over the past three months and is once again...

23 Mar 2015 Confidence surveys

NZ GDP review, Q4 2014

GDP grew by 0.8% in the December 2014, in line with market expectations and slightly...

19 Mar 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ current account review, Q4 2014

The current account deficit widened to 3.3% of GDP in the year to December 2014...

18 Mar 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

The revival in dairy prices came to a halt in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...

18 Mar 2015 Agri

Keep it simple

Last week’s Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) was more focused than usual on...

16 Mar 2015 Weekly Commentary

Home Truths

There has been a decidedly mixed tenor to housing market data recently...

16 Mar 2015 Housing

Notes from Dominick Stephens' tour of Europe

I recently returned from two weeks visiting customers in the United Kingdom and...

13 Mar 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Keep it simple - RBNZ MPS review

The Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged at 3.50% and signalled that it has no...

12 Mar 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q4 2014

We estimate that GDP rose by 0.7% in the December quarter, led by continued...

11 Mar 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

RBNZ taking centre stage

It’s all eyes on the RBNZ right now. The past week saw the release of their latest...

09 Mar 2015 Weekly Commentary