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

NZ Q2 GDP review – Better this time

The New Zealand economy grew even faster than expected in the June quarter...

20 Sep 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ current account, Q2 2018 – Mind the gap

New Zealand’s current account deficit increased to 3.3% of GDP in the year to...

19 Sep 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Conditions for the undisputed heavy hitter of New Zealand’s primary sector, the dairy...

19 Sep 2018 Agri

Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence fell sharply in September, taking it to its lowest in six...

19 Sep 2018 Confidence surveys

Not bad at all

A lot of the commentary on the New Zealand economy has turned decidedly gloomy...

17 Sep 2018 Weekly Commentary