When doves cry

The highlight of the coming week will be the RBNZ’s April interest rate review...

26 Apr 2016 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ OCR Preview, April 2016

The RBNZ is most likely to keep the OCR on hold next week, but to signal an OCR cut...

21 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

International dairy prices rose 3.8% in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...

20 Apr 2016 Agri

Household debt levels now higher than before the financial crisis

Household debt is rising fast. Relative to incomes, household debt levels are now...

20 Apr 2016 Research papers

NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q1 2016

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% in the March quarter, slightly ahead of market...

18 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Put it on the house

Market pricing for a cut at the 28 April OCR review has receded a little in the last week...

18 Apr 2016 Weekly Commentary

Home Truths

After an avalanche of interesting information, the Home Truths team has...

15 Apr 2016 Housing

NZ Consumer Price Index preview, Q1 2016

We expect a 0.1% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the March quarter...

13 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Dairy Scary

Although the New Zealand economy recorded solid growth in the latter half of...

11 Apr 2016 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

Last week Westpac Economics released an Industry Insight report on the...

06 Apr 2016 Agri

NZ Local Knowledge

The indicators for February provided more evidence of a slow start to the year for...

05 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

NZIER Quarterly Survey of Opinion, March 2016

Businesses reported solid results over the last three months, suggesting some...

05 Apr 2016 Economic data and RBNZ