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Weekly Overview 17 August 2017
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Thursday August 17th 2017
This week we look at real estate data and comment on the chances that the Reserve Bank will soon ease LVR restrictions. They are not high. The rules were announced on August 2013. Comparing now with then, although house price inflation has slowed nationwide from 6.3% to 5%, (Auckland 11% to 2%) lending growth is higher at 7.7% from 5.2%, and imbalances clearly persist between demand and supply growth in Auckland.
Weekly Overview 10 August 2017
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Thursday August 10th 2017
We start this week’s Overview doing what everyone else is doing today which is commenting on the Reserve Bank’s decision to do nothing. But then we take a look at the way in which so many things globally and within New Zealand have turned out the complete opposite of either what was expected or what was assumed. These include Peak Oil changing to Peak Demand, the terms of trade trending up and not down, extraordinarily low interest rates being bad for young buyers rather than good (we were better off buying our first houses when rates were at 18.5%) and so on. Enjoy this departure from the usual stuff.
Weekly Overview 3 August 2017
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Thursday August 3rd 2017
This week we take a look at yesterday’s labour market data noting that although the Kiwi dollar fell after the rnumbers on reduced expectations of monetary policy tightening, fundamentally the data show a strong jobs market. We also look at house building, business confidence, and real estate activity in Auckland before noting a recent Treasury paper on superannuation and discussing yet again the way firm economic and jobs growth do not much drive higher inflation and interest rates these days.
Weekly Overview 27 July 2017
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Thursday July 27th 2017
This week’s Overview is a short one at just three pages. We take a look at how few businesses say they lack customers, but risks of problems nonetheless are growing for a variety of reasons. We also note the rise in the Kiwi dollar back above US 75 cents. Two and a half months ago the rate was 68 cents.
Weekly Overview 20 July 2017
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Thursday July 20th 2017
This week we take a look at low inflation and the fairly obvious interest rate implications, the relatively unsurprising scaling back of earlier optimistic expectations that the greenback will soar and we will decline rapidly against it, and some thoughts on retirement saving.