NZ Terms of Trade Review, Q4 2013

NZ’s terms of trade remain at a 40 year high after rising further in the December...

03 Mar 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Boiling over

Events of the last week have underscored our view that New Zealand’s export...

03 Mar 2014 Weekly Commentary

Swings and roundabouts

New Zealand’s housing market is clearly slowing, and retailers ended 2013...

24 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

Home Truths

We have had another round of data confirming that New Zealand’s housing...

20 Feb 2014 Housing

Fortnightly Agri Update

As we’ve noted in recent Fortnightly Agri Updates it is difficult, if not impossible...

19 Feb 2014 Agri

NZ Retail Sales Review, Q4 2013

Retail sales rebounded less strongly than expected in the September quarter...

17 Feb 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Cream of the Crop

Last week we published our latest Quarterly Economic Overview, our flagship...

17 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

Economic Overview: Cream of the crop

Over 2013 the New Zealand economy closely followed the narrative we laid out for it at...

11 Feb 2014 Economic Overview

Onwards and upwards

Recent developments – a slowly strengthening New Zealand labour market...

10 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary

NZ labour market review, Q4 2013

The labour market continued to strengthen in the December 2013 quarter, with the...

05 Feb 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

High prices for New Zealand’s commodity exports, in particular dairy, have become...

05 Feb 2014 Agri

Playing in the V

All eyes were firmly on the Reserve Bank’s January OCR Review last week...

03 Feb 2014 Weekly Commentary