New Zealand firms are far more hopeful about the economy than they were three months ago, but most of them are not yet seeing that hope turn up in their…
Firms that answered ANZ’s September survey after oil jumped again were far gloomier, yet inflation expectations held steady at 3.25 percent.
New Zealanders feel only slightly better about their job prospects than they did in the winter, and the three months to June were the gloomiest the country’s workers have been…
New Zealand’s current account deficit has started widening again, and the country’s fuel import bill is the main reason why. Stats NZ published the balance of payments and international investment…
New Zealand’s big bank economists have spent the past week lifting their forecasts for the June quarter, and all five now expect Thursday’s GDP figures from Stats NZ to show…
Median weekly earnings rose 2.8 percent in the year to June 2026 while the consumers price index rose 4.1 percent, and Stats NZ weighting data shows the squeeze landed very…
Terms of trade fell 9 percent in the June 2026 quarter while export prices rose. Stats NZ data back to 1957 shows imported fuel accounts for the whole fall.
Filled jobs rose 18,033 over the year to July 2026, but health, public administration and education supplied 87 percent of the gain while eight industries shrank.
Stats NZ trade figures for July show a $1.9 billion monthly deficit, with petroleum imports up 127 percent on a year ago and the annual fuel bill reaching $12.1 billion.
Diesel has risen 27.2 cents a litre since mid July, just as the official monthly figures reported a third straight fall. What that means for freight, farming, fishing and construction.
Food prices rose 1.9 percent in the year to July 2026, the smallest annual increase since December 2024, while petrol fell 5.7 percent over the month and electricity prices climbed…
Petrol hit a record price in 2026 but is it really dearer than in 2011? We adjust 22 years of MBIE weekly data for inflation to find out where every…
Two Treasury research papers published on 30 July find the age of eligibility would need to reach 72 by 2065, and 75 by 2100, simply to stop New Zealand Superannuation…
New Zealand businesses are the most optimistic they have been in months. The numbers that measure what the economy actually did are pointing the other way, and the gap between…
Every New Zealander uses a truckload of mined rock a year, yet new mines split the country. Both sides of the New Zealand mining debate, with the numbers.
MBIE data shows 3,501 fee paying international student visas approved in June 2026, the strongest month since at least 2016, as New Zealand chases a 7.2 billion dollar education export…
New Zealand works hard but produces less per hour than most of the developed world. The Think Big years show which fixes work and which to avoid.
The Government’s books are running well ahead of where the Treasury thought they would be just weeks ago, with the operating deficit for the eleven months to the end of…
New Zealand businesses turned noticeably more upbeat in June, and they grew less worried about inflation at the same time, in a survey that lands just two days before the…
Beef mince has hit a record 24.46 dollars a kilo in New Zealand. Here is why sending most of our beef overseas makes it more expensive at home.
New Zealand sold far more to the world than it bought in May, booking a monthly goods trade surplus of $800 million as a jump in meat and dairy exports…
New Zealand’s financial gap with the rest of the world has quietly shrunk to its smallest share of the economy in several years. The catch is that the figures land…
Inflation held at 3.1 percent, unemployment fell to 5.3 percent and retail spending rose in New Zealand’s March 2026 quarter. Here is what the data shows.
New Zealand’s most closely watched economic number lands on Thursday, and the people who forecast it for a living are already warning that it will look better than the economy…
Food inflation has eased to 2.6 percent, but the average hides a huge spread. Meat and avocados are up over 20 percent while eggs and olive oil fell.
Construction has the most company failures, but hospitality is failing fastest. We break New Zealand’s 11-year liquidation high down by industry and driver.
Your winter power bill climbs for two reasons at once, you use more and the wholesale market tightens. We decode both, with this winter’s full hydro lakes.
Net migration is positive, but New Zealand lost 36,500 citizens in a year, most to Australia and most aged 18 to 30. The churn the headline number hides.
We compiled the 2026/27 council rates rises across New Zealand. The big cities are easing, but water is driving the steepest increases in smaller districts.
The Cost of Stopping report puts infrastructure delays at $11.8 billion. The figure is real, but its calculator ignores opportunity cost, and that changes everything.