Mike Jones

Mike Jones

BNZ Chief Economist
Mike is BNZ's Chief Economist. Mike is passionate about using economic insights to help people and businesses make quality decisions that create a better future for our communities and for New Zealand.
The housing market continues to slowly thaw out That’s in keeping with our views. We continue to expect a modest lift in house prices this year Risks from he...
Economy continues to slowly right itself But with a growing risk the investment cycle lags Labour market showing signs of stabilising Housing market force...
The ship appears to be turning, slowly Dairy cash, retail stirrings will help But conflict between future expectations and current reality remains Another...
Shifting US interest rate expectations important, but NZIER survey reaffirms NZ is different ...
GDP update reveals larger 2024 crunch Even as more timely data suggest we’re past the worst Aggressive OCR cuts to continue Signs housing market oversuppl...
The housing market is slowly thawing, and falling mortgage rates will keep the recovery warm ...
Economy still scraping along the bottom Inflation at target and likely to stay there House price expectations unchanged; we see a flat 2024 ahead of a 7% lif...