New Zealand Consumer Prices (Q2 2024)

Today’s CPI release confirms that inflation is all but certain to return to the RBNZ’s 1-3% target by Q3. In the context of an extremely weak economy and a rapidly loosening labour market, there is a growing chance that the Bank will start easing policy at its next meeting in August.

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