Economic reports archive.
NZ Local Knowledge
Overall, the indicators for February were substantially more positive than in...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Yesterday marked the end of the European Union’s milk production quota system...
Town and country
In what has otherwise been a very light week of New Zealand and international data...
Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence
New Zealanders have become more confident about the outlook for the labour...
Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
Consumers’ economic confidence rose in the March quarter, recovering some of the...
Remain in a holding pattern
In this week’s report we set out our reasoning for a downgrade to our OCR...
Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence rose over the past three months and is once again...
NZ GDP review, Q4 2014
GDP grew by 0.8% in the December 2014, in line with market expectations and slightly...
NZ current account review, Q4 2014
The current account deficit widened to 3.3% of GDP in the year to December 2014...
Fortnightly Agri Update
The revival in dairy prices came to a halt in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...
Keep it simple
Last week’s Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) was more focused than usual on...
Home Truths
There has been a decidedly mixed tenor to housing market data recently...