Economic reports archive.
Home Truths
After the Covid-19 crisis broke, we forecast that New Zealand house prices...
Go hard, go early, then go shopping
We have upgraded our activity, exchange rate and inflation forecasts in response...
Preview of NZ GDP and current account, Q1 2020
We expect a 1% drop in GDP for the March quarter. The lockdown in the last week of...
A little less bad, for now
The COVID hit to the economy over coming years is going to be very large...
NZ Dairy Update
Last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction resulted in little change in the headline...
How severe?
There was a definite bounce in the economy after the Alert Level 4 lockdown...
An impending double dip for the construction sector
The construction sector is currently springing back to life as the lockdown is...
A matter of when, not if
The Reserve Bank has succeeded in bringing interest rates down, but if it’s to...
A matter of when, not if – updated RBNZ forecasts
We now expect the RBNZ will reduce the OCR to -0.5% in April 2021...
NZ Dairy Update
Last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction resulted in a slight rise in the headline...
What Covid-19 means for New Zealand’s rental and leasing industry
The impact of Covid-19 on New Zealand’s rental and leasing sector has...
More QE, more spending, more debt
In response to the gale-force headwinds battering the economy, the past week...