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Down but not out
Last week we expressed scepticism that threatened or actual currency intervention...
Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence
New Zealanders’ confidence about the labour market rose again in September...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices took another dive in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction. The headline...
Great expectations
The fall in the New Zealand dollar since July has been appropriate to the softening...
Piling on the pressure
The New Zealand dollar’s small post-election relief bounce last week was...
Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Regional Economic Confidence continued to fade in the September quarter...
More of the same
The weekend’s general election returned an increased majority to the ruling...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence fell in the September quarter, but remains elevated by historical...
NZ GDP review, Q2 2014
GDP grew by 0.7% in the June quarter, as we expected. This was a modest slowdown...
NZ current account review, Q2 2014
New Zealand’s current account deficit narrowed from 2.7% to 2.5% of GDP in the...
Fortnightly Agri Update
A fortnight ago we warned readers that our $5.80 milk price forecast was once...
Home Truths
There has been a lot of commentary recently about the “slowing” housing market...