Market outlook and economic reports

Market outlook including the latest economic news and bulletins, financial forecasts, business news and retail research.

Morning Report
> Friday  03/02/2012

NZ Weekly Economic Insights

Chief Economist Dominick Stephens presents economic insights in this bite-sized weekly video. An impending change at the top for the RBNZ suggests no action on interest rates before December, while a construction boom and pickup in the housing market will eventually help to lift the local economy.

More YouTube videos.


NZ Weekly Commentary
> Week 31/01/2012 
> Week 16/01/2012 
> Week 19/12/2011  19/12/2011

NZ Economic Bulletins
> Q4 Labour Market Preview  02/02/2012
> Changing of the watch  01/02/2012
> OCR Review  26/01/2012
> OCR Preview  23/01/2012
> Q4 CPI Review  19/01/2012
> NZIER Q4 QSBO  17/01/2012
> Q4 CPI Preview  12/01/2012
> Q4 Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence   11/01/2012
> Q3 GDP Review  22/12/2011
> Q4 McDermott Miller Regional Confidence  21/12/2011
> Q4 McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence  20/12/2011
> Q3 GDP Preview  16/12/2011
> Construction Sector review  14/12/2011
> NZD/AUD Model update  09/12/2011
> MPS Review Dec 2011  02/12/2011

NZ Economic and Financial Forecasts
> Latest Forecasts (xls, updated 31/01/2012) 31/01/2012

NZ Economic Overview
> Economic Overview February 2012
> Economic Overview July 2011

NZ Consumer Confidence
> Q4 Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence
> Q4 Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence 19/12/2011

NZ Employment Confidence Index
> Last (Q2)
> Employment Confidence Q3 2011

NZ Occasional Papers
> NZD/AUD forecasting model
> Submission to monetary policy inquiry 2007
> Labour force participation in NZ
> NZ inflation expectations
> A Global Interest Rate Model
> Explaining the NZ-Australian exchange rate
> Trans-tasman interest rates
> Saving and investment in NZ

NZ Agribiz
> Agribiz January 2012
> Agribiz October 2011

NZ Retail Outlook
> Retail Outlook November 2011
> Retail Outlook August 2011 01/08/2011
 
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