Economic reports archive.
Fortnightly Agri Update
In this update, we explore the usefulness of dairy futures as a tool for New Zealand...
Economic Overview: A new chapter
The election of the new Government marks the start of a new chapter for New Zealand...
Brave new-ish world for RBNZ
New Zealand’s monetary policy framework is approaching its biggest shake up in...
Glass half full
Last week’s Monetary Policy Statement was very much in line with expectations...
Review of the November 2017 Monetary Policy Statement
As expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated its neutral...
Fortnightly Agri Update
It is music to exporters’ ears when the NZ dollar weakens against our major trading...
How far to full employment?
Last week’s September labour market report painted a slightly stronger picture than...
Preview of the Nov 2017 Monetary Policy Statement
We expect the RBNZ to keep the OCR on hold and give the same neutral policy...
NZ labour market review, Q3 2017 – Room for more?
The unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low of 4.6% in the September quarter...
Back to work
We expect this week’s labour market reports to show a solid rise in employment...
NZ labour market preview, September quarter 2017
We expect the gradual strengthening in the labour market to have continued...
Home Truths
After a period of sharply cooling house prices, the market may well have entered...