April 2025 Newsletter

  Newsletter - April 2025

                Featured article

            Economist Matthew Allman examines economic forecasts from The Budget Lab at Yale, focusing on the effects of tariffs set by the US and the retaliatory tariffs from its trading partners.

                            US growth revised lower; economy could be headed for “stagflation”

                    There has been endless news on the current unprecedented trade war between the US and the rest of the world. The effects on US consumers and the US economy should not be understated, and forecasts incorporating current policy paint a depressing outlook for the US.
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                                Deep hotspots of deprivation around the country

                        Earlier this month we introduced the New Zealand Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (NZDep) to the Regional Economic Profile Census section. In this article we discuss NZDep and what it can tell us...
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                                Economy’s recovery on ice as trade war hits growth

                        The emerging international trade war has created uncertainty about global growth prospects and US trade and foreign policy, which could knock as much as 1.4 percentage points off New Zealand’s GDP...
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                                Chart of the month: Consumer hots and nots reflect changing spending patterns

                        New data from Stats NZ shows a number of items becoming more popular over time, particularly as technology shifts, while other products fall out of favour with households as preferences change. The...
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                        New releases and updates

    Webinar recordings

Infometrics monthly webinars give our clients direct access to our economists and their insights.
 Clients have access to this month's webinar. After a month, we make recordings available to the public.
April 2025: NZ perspective on the trade war (available to clients)
March 2025: Global trends and uncertainty

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    Econ Talks

Chief Executive and Principal Economist Brad Olsen and Chief Forecaster Gareth Kiernan discuss:
17 April 2025: Inflation rises to 2.5% at start of 2025
14 April 2025: RBNZ cuts OCR by 25 points
7 April 2025: Trump Tariffs

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                Subscriber updates

                    Quarterly Economic Monitor for March 2025 release: 22 May 2025

                Infometrics Quarterly Economic Monitor for the March 2025 quarter will be released on Thursday 22 May 2025.

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