Economic reports archive.
Staying on course
Following recent sharp falls in oil prices and the related softening in the inflation...
Q4 labour market review
Although unemployment unexpectedly rose in December, conditions in the labour...
Fortnightly Agri Update
The emerging drought in New Zealand is now clearly having an effect on dairy...
A new tack
For some time the big story in the world of economics has been plunging global oil...
Q4 labour market preview
The robust domestic economy is supporting increases in employment. But it is also...
RBNZ OCR review, January 2015
The Reserve Bank has abandoned any talk of OCR hikes, and is now ambivalent...
The tide has turned
Last week’s December quarter 2014 Consumer Price Index (CPI) was softer than...
RBNZ OCR preview
We now expect inflation to remain below 1% until late-2015, and the Reserve Bank to...
NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q4 2014
Consumer price inflation was even softer than expected in the December...
Fortnightly Agri Update
At the end of last year we drew attention to the emerging risk of another drought...
NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, December 2014
General business confidence remains at above average levels and businesses’...
Don’t stop me now
New Zealand is on track for another year of solid growth. This week we take a look at...