NZ Consumer Price Index review, Q2 2014

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% in the June quarter, just a touch short...

16 Jul 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Dairy prices fell 8.9% in last night’s auction and prices have now fallen 35% since...

16 Jul 2014 Agri

Home Truths

We will kick off this month’s Home Truths by recapping the recent history of the...

15 Jul 2014 Housing

End of the golden weather

The New Zealand economy appeared to have hit a sweet spot in the early part...

14 Jul 2014 Weekly Commentary

NZ Consumer Price Index preview, Q2 2014

We expect a 0.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the June quarter...

10 Jul 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, Q2 2014

The June Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion suggests that economic conditions...

08 Jul 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

The verdict is in

There was a notably widespread downturn across the range of activity indicators...

07 Jul 2014 Weekly Commentary

NZ Local Knowledge

The indicators presented here – 20 unique series, plus a few subsets and...

04 Jul 2014 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

China is clearly a key market for New Zealand, taking more than a quarter of our...

02 Jul 2014 Agri

Second chances

Recent data give us no reason to expect the RBNZ to depart from the plans it set...

30 Jun 2014 Weekly Commentary

Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence

New Zealanders’ confidence about the labour market rose further in June...

30 Jun 2014 Confidence surveys

Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence

Regional economic confidence remains in optimistic territory throughout...

24 Jun 2014 Confidence surveys