Economic reports archive.
Home Truths
This month Home Truths recaps why we expect the housing market to stage a brief...
Economic Overview: Taking a breather
Over the past few months just about everything relevant to the New Zealand...
Past the sweet spot
Last week’s labour market data raised fresh doubts about the economy’s capacity...
NZ Local Knowledge
The balance of our indicators was a touch stronger in June compared to May...
NZ labour market review, Q2 2014
The unemployment rate fell from 5.9% to 5.6% in the June quarter, its lowest in over...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Dairy prices tumbled further in last night’s GDT auction. The headline trade...
The laggardly labour market
Unsettling news continues to emerge from China, and from some of New Zealand’s...
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...