Falling into place

We recently released our latest Economic Overview. It highlights that the...

27 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

NZ retail spending review, June quarter 2018

Mortgage rates will fall, and that has improved the house price outlook...

22 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Interest rates are important for farmers, both directly in terms of borrowing costs...

22 Aug 2018 Agri

Economic Overview: Falling into place

The pieces of the puzzle that we laid out in past Economic Overviews are now falling...

21 Aug 2018 Economic Overview

Low for longer

After digesting the latest Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank...

20 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

Home Truths

The latest housing market data suggests the market remains locked in a fairly subdued...

15 Aug 2018 Housing

A risk to be taken seriously – Change of OCR call, August 2018

We have changed our OCR forecast for the first time in a year. We now expect the...

14 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Snap back to reality

As expected, the Reserve Bank repeated its line that the OCR will stay low...

13 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

Snap back to reality: RBNZ MPS Review, August 2018

The RBNZ has (finally) accepted the reality that the economy has slowed this year...

09 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

While prices for most of the agricultural products New Zealand produces have...

08 Aug 2018 Agri

Working through the details

Business confidence surveys are painting an increasingly dismal picture of the state...

06 Aug 2018 Weekly Commentary

RBNZ MPS preview, August 2018

At next week’s Monetary Policy Statement, the RBNZ will probably repeat that it...

02 Aug 2018 Economic data and RBNZ