Economic reports archive.

Fortnightly Agri Update

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

08 Nov 2017 Agri

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

06 Nov 2017 Weekly Commentary

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

02 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

The unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low of 4.6% in the September quarter...

01 Nov 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

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

30 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

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

25 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

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

25 Oct 2017 Housing

After nearly a month of negotiations, New Zealand finally knows the form of the...

24 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary

Labour and New Zealand First have formed a minority coalition government...

20 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

There have been a few developments in the dairy market since our last significant...

18 Oct 2017 Agri

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5% in the September 2017 quarter...

17 Oct 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

There is growing evidence that the slowdown in the housing market over the last year...

16 Oct 2017 Weekly Commentary