A week to remember

Last week was a massive one for New Zealand economic news. The US-China...

12 Aug 2019 Weekly Commentary

Review of the August 2019 Monetary Policy Statement

The RBNZ has made an unprecedented decision to cut the OCR 50 bps...

07 Aug 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

We expect the recent escalation in the US-China trade war to lead to weaker...

07 Aug 2019 Agri

NZ labour market review, Q2 2019

The New Zealand labour market has defied expectations of a slowdown, with the...

06 Aug 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

Follow the leader

The big news last week was that the Federal Reserve cut the US policy interest rate by...

05 Aug 2019 Weekly Commentary

Over the Fence

Log prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks. This month’s Over the Fence report...

02 Aug 2019 Agri

Preview of RBNZ MPS, August 2019

The RBNZ is likely to lower the OCR to 1.25% next week. We expect the RBNZ to...

01 Aug 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ labour market preview, Q2 2019

We expect the unemployment rate to rise to 4.3% in the June quarter, reflecting...

31 Jul 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

How low can they go?

We now expect the RBNZ to reduce the OCR in August and November this year, with a...

29 Jul 2019 Weekly Commentary

OCR limbo… how low can it go? Westpac changes its RBNZ call

We previously forecast that the RBNZ would cut the OCR in August, citing global...

25 Jul 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

The shine is coming off

For some time now we’ve been noting the slowdown in the domestic economy...

22 Jul 2019 Weekly Commentary

NZ Dairy Update

Dairy prices halted their recent slide in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction...

17 Jul 2019 Agri