New Zealand Government Budget 2019

The Budget boosted spending on mental health and indexed benefits to wage...

30 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

Game changer

The New Zealand economy lost some momentum in the second half of last year...

27 May 2019 Weekly Commentary

Wellbeing, well what?

This week the Government reveals its much vaunted Wellbeing Budget...

27 May 2019 Research papers

NZ Budget Preview, May 2019

Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivers his much vaunted “Wellbeing Budget”...

24 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ retail sales, March quarter 2019

Retail spending rose by 0.7% in the March quarter. That was another solid gain...

22 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

The run of price increases at the past 11 consecutive GlobalDairyTrade auctions...

22 May 2019 Agri

Economic Overview: Game changer

The dramatic decline in interest rates over the past few months is going to be a...

21 May 2019 Economic Overview

One and done

As expected the RBNZ cut the Official Cash Rate to a record low of 1.5% last week...

13 May 2019 Weekly Commentary

That’s all, folks – Update on Westpac’s OCR forecast

Today we are reaffirming our forecast that the RBNZ will keep the OCR on hold at...

10 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

Review of RBNZ Monetary Policy Statement, May 2019

The RBNZ reduced the OCR to 1.5%. The RBNZ still has an easing bias...

08 May 2019 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ Dairy Update

Dairy prices continued to edge higher in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction with the...

08 May 2019 Agri

On a knife edge

Last week Stats NZ released its quarterly roundup on the labour market, which was...

06 May 2019 Weekly Commentary