Economic reports archive.
In the good books
After waning a little over summer, the economic recovery has regained…
Monthly Meat Matters
We have upgraded our farmgate meat price forecasts. The price lift we expected...
NZ Budget preview, May 2021
Budget 2021 will show a dramatic improvement in New Zealand’s fiscal...
Rounding the bend
The New Zealand economy has come through the ‘tourist-less summer’ with…
NZ labour market review, Q1 2021
The unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in the March quarter, stronger than our forecast...
NZ Dairy Update
Dairy prices overnight continued the sideways trend of the last few auctions...
Here and back again
It’s early days for the trans-Tasman travel bubble, but the evidence to date supports…
NZ labour market preview, Q1 2021
We expect the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.9% for the March quarter…
The land of milk and money
General inflation remains low. And while it may rise temporarily later this year...
NZ CPI review, Q1 2021
Consumer price inflation has started to edge higher, and we think there is more to...
NZ Dairy Update
We upgrade our 2021/22 farmgate milk price forecast by 75 cents to $8.00/kg.
Biding their time
There were no surprises from the Reserve Bank in last week’s Monetary Policy Review...