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NZ remained in recession at the end of last year, with unemployment rising above 5% and employment falling again in Q4.

Weaker demand for labour explains higher unemployment in most countries, but Australia's jobless rate has edged up on increased supply.

Continued economic weakness has seen the RBNZ open the door for considering rate cuts this year.

NZ unemployment continues to rise as employment falls.

NZ inflation showed a continued striking contrast between weak goods prices and persistent services inflation.

Let’s jump back in time to 1997 when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) was just about to make a horrible policy error.

A singular COVID-19 case emerged in New Zealand the day before the RBNZ monetary policy meeting in August. Without any hesitation Auckland went straight into a 7-day...

Faced with an overheating housing market, the RBNZ is tightening lending standards for home loans by reinstating pre-pandemic loan-valuation ratio (LVR) restrictions...

Negative interest rates were a hot topic this week. President Trump repeated his support for the idea but even prior to this, several Federal Reserve officials said...

On Wednesday the MSCI World Index of developed economy equities hit a record high. For those fixated on equity markets, it is understandable that upbeat narratives are...

It was a successful week for Westpac’s economics teams in Sydney and Auckland as they correctly predicted both the RBA’s steady hand and the RBNZ’s interest rate cut...

In late 2018 the RBNZ proposed implementing some of the most conservative capital requirements globally for the NZ banking system. Ironically these proposed changes...