Economic reports archive.

Fortnightly Agri Update

The forestry sector has been enjoying a bumper run. Log prices...

08 Feb 2017 Agri

It was a middle of the road performance from our activity indicators in December...

07 Feb 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

This week the Reserve Bank will release its first Monetary Policy Statement for the...

07 Feb 2017 Weekly Commentary

We expect the Reserve Bank to hold the OCR at 1.75%, with a firmly neutral outlook...

02 Feb 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

The unemployment rate rose to 5.2% in the December quarter, against analysts’...

01 Feb 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

The main local news last week was the Consumer Price Index for the December...

31 Jan 2017 Weekly Commentary

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in the last quarter of 2016, ahead of...

26 Jan 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

We’re expecting to see further growth in employment in December on the back...

25 Jan 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

For our first issue of the year, we’ll recap what we see as the key themes for the...

23 Jan 2017 Weekly Commentary

New Zealanders have become increasingly optimistic about the state of the labour...

20 Jan 2017 Confidence surveys

We expect a 0.2% rise in the Consumer Price Index for the December 2016 quarter...

19 Jan 2017 Economic data and RBNZ

It’s been a lacklustre start to the year for dairy prices, after last year’s remarkable...

18 Jan 2017 Agri