NZ CPI preview, Q3 2018 – Gas in the tank

Rising oil prices and a lower exchange rate are expect to lift annual inflation to 1.7%...

11 Oct 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Home Truths

The latest housing market data from the REINZ and others suggests that the...

11 Oct 2018 Housing

NZ fiscal accounts, year to June 2018

The Government recorded a much larger than expected surplus in the June 2018...

09 Oct 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

A winter of discontent?

Business confidence has fallen significantly over the past year. There’s no doubt...

08 Oct 2018 Weekly Commentary

Fortnightly Agri Update

International beef prices are coming under increased pressure on the back of a...

03 Oct 2018 Agri

NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, September 2018

NZ business confidence fell further in the September quarter with both the headline...

02 Oct 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Let me make this clear

The tone of last week’s Reserve Bank policy statement was a little more dovish...

01 Oct 2018 Weekly Commentary

Cementing the view – OCR Review, Sep 2018

The RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated the key phrases about the OCR...

27 Sep 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence

Overall confidence in the labour market eased slightly in September...

26 Sep 2018 Confidence surveys

Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence

Six of eleven regions posted a deterioration in regional economic confidence...

25 Sep 2018 Confidence surveys

Trundling along

The economy fared better than expected in the June quarter, and more recent data...

24 Sep 2018 Weekly Commentary

Let’s be frank – RBNZ preview, Sep 2018

We expect the RBNZ will leave the OCR unchanged at next week’s OCR Review...

21 Sep 2018 Economic data and RBNZ