Economic reports archive.
NZ labour market preview, Q2 2014
We expect that the recent strong jobs growth continued over the June quarter...
A timely intervention
Since Graham Wheeler came to the helm, the Reserve Bank seems to have been...
RBNZ OCR Review, July 2014 - The tortoise versus the hare
This OCR Review was very much in line with our expectations. The RBNZ hiked...
Cat among the pigeons
The big news of last week was an 8.9% fall in the GlobalDairyTrade auction...
RBNZ July 2014 OCR Preview
A spate of weak data has raised legitimate questions about the appropriate pace...
NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q2 2014
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% in the June quarter, just a touch short...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices fell 8.9% in last night’s auction and prices have now fallen 35% since...
Home Truths
We will kick off this month’s Home Truths by recapping the recent history of the...
End of the golden weather
The New Zealand economy appeared to have hit a sweet spot in the early part...
NZ Consumer Price Index preview, Q2 2014
We expect a 0.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the June quarter...
NZ Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, Q2 2014
The June Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion suggests that economic conditions...
The verdict is in
There was a notably widespread downturn across the range of activity indicators...