More cuts – but when?

The Reserve Bank’s September Monetary Policy Statement offered few surprises...

14 Sep 2015 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ MPS review, September 2015

The Reserve Bank reduced the Official Cash Rate by 25bp to 2.75%, and signalled...

10 Sep 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q2 2015

We estimate that GDP rose by 0.7% in the June quarter, as some of the temporary...

09 Sep 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Mixed fortunes

A major theme of our outlook for the New Zealand economy is that the dairying...

07 Sep 2015 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ MPS preview, September 2015

The RBNZ will almost certainly cut the OCR 25bps to 2.75% next Thursday...

04 Sep 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Local Knowledge

Just as the sentiment on the New Zealand economy turns decidedly gloomy...

04 Sep 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ building work put in place, June quarter 2015

Total building work put in place rose 1.6% in the June quarter, taking the level of...

03 Sep 2015 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

International dairy prices rose a further 10.9% in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade...

02 Sep 2015 Agri

Down, up… then down again

In this week’s report we take a look at what’s been happening with inflation...

31 Aug 2015 Weekly Commentary

Bright spots

A sharp bounce in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction offered a ray of...

24 Aug 2015 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

Dairy prices rose sharply at last night’s GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction...

19 Aug 2015 Agri

The turning tide

Last week we launched our latest quarterly Economic Overview, titled “The tide has...

17 Aug 2015 Weekly Commentary