Further to our last email, economic activity is showing positive signs due to the reduced OCR, with a further boost having come by way of a further rate reduction of 0.25%....
New Zealand’s economic recovery appears to have almost stalled, as we wait for the impact of lower mortgage rates to flow through to the economy. We are also suffering from low levels of immigration, with most of this being lower paid workers, whilst our educated...
The New Year is well underway, with our first OCR reduction having come through in February, plus lots of noise coming from Politicians as their New Year begins....
The cost of these storms will have a short-term inflationary effect on an already stretched Civil and Construction industry and provide an initial negative impact on the Countries economy, however, like the Christchurch earthquakes, will provide a medium to longer term benefit, as repairs and...
As we get towards the end of what has been a tumultuous calendar year, we have seen some industries flourish and some find the going very tough. Rampant inflation has hit everyone in the pocket, and the signs are that this will continue to be...
A downturn like no other! Whether we go into a technical recession or not, defined as 2 quarters of negative GDP growth, a Reserve Bank driven slowdown was a necessity....
We spoke about a changing public focus in our previous newsletter, and subject to a new more transmissible Covid variant not surfacing, that has already occurred. They say a politician has to have some luck on their side to survive in politics’, which has been...
Just when a possible return to a new normal appears on the horizon, Covid throws us a new variant of itself. This Country has always lagged behind the appearance of the virus in various forms, as opposed to the rest of the World, however our...