Economic reports archive.
Outlook for Auckland residential construction
Auckland continues to build fewer dwellings than is required to meet the demands...
NZ retail sales, June quarter 2015
Retail spending growth slowed sharply in the June quarter, dampened by the rebound in...
Home Truths
This month Home Truths marvels at the way New Zealand’s housing market has...
Economic Overview: The tide has turned
In our last Economic Overview we argued that the outlook had changed...
Losing altitude
Developments over the past week have added to signs that momentum in the...
NZ labour market review June quarter 2015
June quarter labour market data have added to signs that the economy has lost...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices took another pounding in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...
NZ Local Knowledge
The June indicators provide further evidence that the domestic economy is softening...
Comfortably low
Last week Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler delivered a speech titled...
Forewarned is forearmed
The Canterbury rebuild has peaked. Demand for construction workers in Canterbury...
NZ Labour Market Preview, June 2015
We expect the unemployment rate to rise to 5.9% in June as demand for workers...
A turn for the worse
Last week the Reserve Bank reduced the OCR a quarter of a percentage point to...