Fortnightly Agri Update

In this update, we explore the usefulness of dairy futures as a tool for New Zealand...

22 Nov 2017 Agri

Economic Overview: A new chapter

The election of the new Government marks the start of a new chapter for New Zealand...

21 Nov 2017 Economic Overview

Brave new-ish world for RBNZ

New Zealand’s monetary policy framework is approaching its biggest shake up in...

20 Nov 2017 Weekly Commentary

Glass half full

Last week’s Monetary Policy Statement was very much in line with expectations...

13 Nov 2017 Weekly Commentary

Review of the November 2017 Monetary Policy Statement

As expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated its neutral...

09 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

It is music to exporters’ ears when the NZ dollar weakens against our major trading...

08 Nov 2017 Agri

How far to full employment?

Last week’s September labour market report painted a slightly stronger picture than...

06 Nov 2017 Weekly Commentary

Preview of the Nov 2017 Monetary Policy Statement

We expect the RBNZ to keep the OCR on hold and give the same neutral policy...

02 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

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...

01 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Back to work

We expect this week’s labour market reports to show a solid rise in employment...

30 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

NZ labour market preview, September quarter 2017

We expect the gradual strengthening in the labour market to have continued...

25 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Home Truths

After a period of sharply cooling house prices, the market may well have entered...

25 Oct 2017 Housing