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Economic reports archive.
Will we see a sustained pick-up in inflation?
Inflation will rebound over the coming months, but we don’t expect this to be...
Industry Insight: Oil, gas and mining
This is the first report in Westpac’s new series of regular reports on specific sectors...
Take it slow
After considering the last week’s events, we have changed our view on the timing of...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence has taken another step lower as the economic climate has soured...
NZ GDP review, Q2 2015
GDP rose by 0.4% in the June quarter, again falling short of market forecasts...
NZ current account review, Q2 2015
The current account deficit widened to 3.5% of GDP in the year to June 2015, from a...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Beef exports have been one of our most consistently strong performers in recent...
More cuts – but when?
The Reserve Bank’s September Monetary Policy Statement offered few surprises...
RBNZ MPS review, September 2015
The Reserve Bank reduced the Official Cash Rate by 25bp to 2.75%, and signalled...
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...
Mixed fortunes
A major theme of our outlook for the New Zealand economy is that the dairying...
RBNZ MPS preview, September 2015
The RBNZ will almost certainly cut the OCR 25bps to 2.75% next Thursday...