In the good books

After waning a little over summer, the economic recovery has regained…

17 May 2021 Weekly Commentary

Monthly Meat Matters

We have upgraded our farmgate meat price forecasts. The price lift we expected...

14 May 2021 Agri

NZ Budget preview, May 2021

Budget 2021 will show a dramatic improvement in New Zealand’s fiscal...

13 May 2021 Economic data and RBNZ

Rounding the bend

The New Zealand economy has come through the ‘tourist-less summer’ with…

10 May 2021 Weekly Commentary

NZ labour market review, Q1 2021

The unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in the March quarter, stronger than our forecast...

05 May 2021 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

Dairy prices overnight continued the sideways trend of the last few auctions...

05 May 2021 Agri

Here and back again

It’s early days for the trans-Tasman travel bubble, but the evidence to date supports…

03 May 2021 Weekly Commentary

NZ labour market preview, Q1 2021

We expect the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.9% for the March quarter…

30 Apr 2021 Economic data and RBNZ

The land of milk and money

General inflation remains low. And while it may rise temporarily later this year...

27 Apr 2021 Weekly Commentary

NZ CPI review, Q1 2021

Consumer price inflation has started to edge higher, and we think there is more to...

21 Apr 2021 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

We upgrade our 2021/22 farmgate milk price forecast by 75 cents to $8.00/kg.

21 Apr 2021 Agri

Biding their time

There were no surprises from the Reserve Bank in last week’s Monetary Policy Review...

19 Apr 2021 Weekly Commentary