Neither good nor bad

Last week we received GDP data for the December quarter, which showed that...

20 Mar 2017 Weekly Commentary

Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence

Confidence among New Zealand households nudged down in March, but only a touch...

20 Mar 2017 Confidence surveys

RBNZ OCR preview, March 2017 – The little engine that could?

We expect the Reserve Bank to hold the OCR at 1.75% and to maintain a neutral...

17 Mar 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Q4 GDP Review, March 2017

GDP rose by 0.4% in the December quarter, a touch below our forecasts, with a...

16 Mar 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Q4 BOP Review, March 2017

The current account deficit narrowed to 2.7% of GDP in the year to December...

15 Mar 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

A little less glossy

Recent developments signal a little less momentum in the economy than we...

13 Mar 2017 Weekly Commentary

Easing back – NZ GDP and Current Account Preview, Q4 2016

We estimate that GDP rose by a modest 0.5% in the December quarter...

10 Mar 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Dairy prices fell 6.3% in last night’s dairy auction, following a 3.2% decline...

08 Mar 2017 Agri

People power

Last week we received the first reading of business confidence for the year...

06 Mar 2017 Weekly Commentary

Q4 Building Work Put in Place

Building activity rose 1.9% in the December quarter, and is up 14.5% over the past year...

03 Mar 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

In the zone

The New Zealand is currently in a sweet spot. The economy has been growing at...

27 Feb 2017 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

Dairy prices fell 3.2% in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction, following...

22 Feb 2017 Agri