The hangover

The Auckland housing market is now suffering a hangover from its recent...

16 Nov 2015 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ Financial Stability Report

This morning the RBNZ released its latest Financial Stability Report. The RBNZ...

11 Nov 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Home Truths

The Real Estate Institute’s housing market data for October was some of the weakest...

11 Nov 2015 Housing

Regional Roundup

This is the first in our new series of quarterly economic roundups focusing on key...

10 Nov 2015 Regional Roundup

Pointing down

It’s been just over a week since the RBNZ’s October interest rate decision. At that time...

09 Nov 2015 Weekly Commentary

NZ Local Knowledge

On balance our indicators have softened again, with more falls than rises in the...

06 Nov 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

World dairy prices fell for a second consecutive GlobalDairyTrade auction...

04 Nov 2015 Agri

Economic Overview: Not out of the woods yet

In our last Economic Overview we warned of an impending economic slowdown...

03 Nov 2015 Economic Overview

Kicking for touch

NZ financial markets will kick off the week in a jubilant mood after the All Blacks’...

02 Nov 2015 Weekly Commentary

NZ Q3 Labour Market Preview

We expect the unemployment rate to rise to 6.2% in September as strong growth in the...

30 Oct 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

RBNZ OCR Review, October 2015

The RBNZ left the OCR on hold, but signalled that it expects to reduce the OCR again...

29 Oct 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Getting crowded

This week we cover population growth and the Canterbury rebuild – both are strong...

27 Oct 2015 Weekly Commentary