RBNZ OCR review, January 2015

The Reserve Bank has abandoned any talk of OCR hikes, and is now ambivalent...

29 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

The tide has turned

Last week’s December quarter 2014 Consumer Price Index (CPI) was softer than...

27 Jan 2015 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ OCR preview

We now expect inflation to remain below 1% until late-2015, and the Reserve Bank to...

22 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q4 2014

Consumer price inflation was even softer than expected in the December...

21 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

At the end of last year we drew attention to the emerging risk of another drought...

21 Jan 2015 Agri

NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, December 2014

General business confidence remains at above average levels and businesses’...

20 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Don’t stop me now

New Zealand is on track for another year of solid growth. This week we take a look at...

19 Jan 2015 Weekly Commentary

Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence

New Zealanders became more pessimistic about the state of the labour market in...

19 Jan 2015 Confidence surveys

NZ Consumer Price Index preview, Q4 2014

We estimate that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was flat over the December...

15 Jan 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence

Consumers’ economic confidence has tumbled in Southland and the Waikato...

13 Jan 2015 Confidence surveys

Happy New Year!

We’d like to wish all our readers the best for 2015...

12 Jan 2015 Weekly Commentary

Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence has fallen further, particularly in rural and provincial...

22 Dec 2014 Confidence surveys