Economic reports archive.
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...
Notes from Dominick Stephens' tour of Europe
I recently returned from two weeks visiting customers in the United Kingdom and...
Keep it simple - RBNZ MPS review
The Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged at 3.50% and signalled that it has no...
NZ GDP and Current Account preview, Q4 2014
We estimate that GDP rose by 0.7% in the December quarter, led by continued...
RBNZ taking centre stage
It’s all eyes on the RBNZ right now. The past week saw the release of their latest...
NZ Local Knowledge
The balance of indicators remained very strong over the three months to December...