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Economic reports archive.
Shape of things to come
Christchurch’s tragic earthquake on February 22 wrought a terrible human toll...
Agribiz: A balancing act
Prices for NZ commodity exports have reached all-time highs...
Economic Overview
The economy performed poorly during the middle of 2010...
Retail Outlook: Looking forward to 2011
New Zealand’s economic recovery during 2010 failed to live up to the promise...
Why so glum?
Recent research confirms our suspicion that global financial stress has been...
Agribiz: History never repeats?
Global food prices are on the rise. But there’s not yet the same sense...
Raising interest
The New Zealand banking system has only limited scope to raise local deposits...
Shaky isles
The earthquake that struck the Canterbury region this weekend has resulted...
Crossing the line
NZ’s economic data has been weaker than Australia’s, and the interest rate spread...
Being effective
There has been much hand-wringing, mostly by vested interest groups...
Neutral about neutral
There are lots of moving parts in guestimating a neutral cash rate...
A matter of interest
There will be a greater margin between actual lending rates and the OCR/swap...