Industry Insights: Residential Building

This report focuses on the residential building industry, which is concerned with...

13 Sep 2017 Research papers, Industry

Moderate growth to continue

Recent indicators have provided more evidence of how New Zealand’s economic...

11 Sep 2017 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

Dairy prices rose by 0.3% overall in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...

06 Sep 2017 Agri

Auckland construction falling behind

New Zealand is wrestling with a large and growing shortage of houses, with the...

04 Sep 2017 Weekly Commentary

A look at the books

The Government’s accounts are on course for growing surpluses over the next few...

28 Aug 2017 Weekly Commentary

To LVR or not to LVR?

With the housing market continuing to slow, there have been calls for the Reserve...

21 Aug 2017 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

Presently, wine is a $1.6 billion export industry for New Zealand, with a...

16 Aug 2017 Agri

Economic Overview: Throttle back

The New Zealand economy is now into its seventh year of expansion. While we do...

15 Aug 2017 Economic Overview

Expect delays

The Reserve Bank left the Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75% in its August...

14 Aug 2017 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ MPS review, August 2017 – A matter of time

The Reserve Bank kept the Official Cash Rate on hold at 1.75%, and made few changes...

10 Aug 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Against the tide

Last week Stats NZ gave us the lowdown on New Zealand’s labour market...

07 Aug 2017 Weekly Commentary

Monetary Policy Statement preview, August 2017

We expect the RBNZ will leave the OCR at 1.75% and reiterate that monetary...

04 Aug 2017 Economic data and RBNZ