Economic reports archive.

Why so glum?

Recent research confirms our suspicion that global financial stress has been...

Global food prices are on the rise. But there’s not yet the same sense...

The New Zealand banking system has only limited scope to raise local deposits...

The earthquake that struck the Canterbury region this weekend has resulted...

NZ’s economic data has been weaker than Australia’s, and the interest rate spread...

There has been much hand-wringing, mostly by vested interest groups...

There are lots of moving parts in guestimating a neutral cash rate...

There will be a greater margin between actual lending rates and the OCR/swap...

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the interest rate environment in...

The housing market has been slow over 2010, with low sales, lengthening time...

New Zealand remains in a housing shortage...

The Government has signalled a range of economic reforms, including changes...