Economic reports archive.
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence has edged lower, but remains near nine-year highs...
RBNZ Monetary Policy Statement, June 2014
The Reserve Bank today increased to OCR from 3.00% to 3.25%, and provided...
NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q1 2014
We estimate that GDP rose 1.2% in the March quarter, a third consecutive strong...
NZ Local Knowledge
The indicators presented here – 20 unique series, plus a few subsets and variations...
Swings and roundabouts
Last week’s soft dairy auction result, and a monster March quarter for the...
RBNZ Monetary Policy Statement Preview
We expect the RBNZ to hike the OCR by 25 basis points next week, and to...
NZ building activity survey, Q1 2014
Building work put in place rose 16% in the March quarter, well ahead of our...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Last week’s big news was Fonterra’s announcement of its opening payout...
NZ Terms of Trade, Q1 2014
The terms of trade rose further in the March quarter, to reach its highest level in more...
Off the boil, but still hot
While the New Zealand economy started the year at a rolling boil, it now appears to...
Taking a second look
A couple of weeks ago the high exchange rate and weak inflation pressure lead us...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Last week the Reserve Bank published its biannual Financial Stability Report (FSR)...