Economic reports archive.

Confidence confirms contrasts

Last week, two separate confidence surveys reconfirmed our view that a dichotomy...

04 Apr 2016 Weekly Commentary

Employment confidence improved further in the March quarter, and now sits a little...

04 Apr 2016 Confidence surveys

Dairy’s woes have re-emerged as the major factor affecting regional economic...

30 Mar 2016 Confidence surveys

The Fishing, Aquaculture and Seafood sector is experiencing falling employment...

30 Mar 2016 Research papers, Industry

This week we take a closer look at the outlook for household spending, which was...

29 Mar 2016 Weekly Commentary

The New Zealand economy put in a reasonable performance over the second...

21 Mar 2016 Weekly Commentary

Consumer confidence nudged down in the early part of 2016 as households...

21 Mar 2016 Confidence surveys

The current account deficit narrowed to 3.1% of GDP in the year to December, the lowest...

16 Mar 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

Dairy prices slid further in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction. The headline...

16 Mar 2016 Agri

We estimate that GDP rose by 0.7% in the December quarter, led by manufacturing...

11 Mar 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

The Reserve Bank reduced the Official Cash Rate by 25bp to 2.25%. This fulfils our...

10 Mar 2016 Economic data and RBNZ

The domestic economy has had a fairly middling start to the year, with our...

08 Mar 2016 Economic data and RBNZ