Economic reports archive.
Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence
Employment confidence rose by 1.4 points to 99.7 in the December quarter...
Key factors to watch in 2024
Happy New Year! Given the holiday break, we didn’t see much news of note in New Zealand...
NZ CPI preview, Q4 2023
Inflation is set to again fall short of the RBNZ’s forecasts. We expect that next…
NZ Dairy Update
Dairy prices continued a strong start to the year. Dairy auction prices posted…
HYEFU review 2023
A weaker economy and population pressures have led to a weaker fiscal outlook…
NZ Dairy Update
We have revised up our 2023/24 milk price forecast from $7.25/kg to $7.50/kg…
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
While still low, consumer confidence has picked up, with the Westpac…
No further RBNZ tightening looks likely
Last week did not disappoint in terms of the importance of the data, both locally…
Change of OCR call
The case for a hike in February now looks too thin. Recent GDP data shows a…
Bring on the data!
With little dataflow in New Zealand last week, markets took their tone from offshore…
Westpac NZ Retail Spending Pulse
This is the inaugural release of our Retail Spending Pulse where we analyse…
HYEFU preview 2023
It’s very early days for the new government. As a result, we expect little…