Economic reports archive.
Neither good nor bad
Last week we received GDP data for the December quarter, which showed that...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Confidence among New Zealand households nudged down in March, but only a touch...
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...
Q4 GDP Review, March 2017
GDP rose by 0.4% in the December quarter, a touch below our forecasts, with a...
Q4 BOP Review, March 2017
The current account deficit narrowed to 2.7% of GDP in the year to December...
A little less glossy
Recent developments signal a little less momentum in the economy than we...
Easing back – NZ GDP and Current Account Preview, Q4 2016
We estimate that GDP rose by a modest 0.5% in the December quarter...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices fell 6.3% in last night’s dairy auction, following a 3.2% decline...
People power
Last week we received the first reading of business confidence for the year...
Q4 Building Work Put in Place
Building activity rose 1.9% in the December quarter, and is up 14.5% over the past year...
In the zone
The New Zealand is currently in a sweet spot. The economy has been growing at...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices fell 3.2% in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction, following...