NZIER quarterly consensus economic forecasts - lower inflation, faster growth

Quarterly forecasts via the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research

Their summary:

The latest NZIER Consensus Forecasts shows forecasters have revised up expectations of growth and employment through to 2019. Despite the more favourable growth outlook, expectations for inflation and wage growth have been lowered.Forecasters have pushed back by around one year expectations of when headline inflation would get back within its 1-3% inflation target band. That said, the consensus is still for headline inflation to edge close to the 2% midpoint target from the second half of 2017.

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Low inflation could prompt still more RBNZ rate cuts. They cut last week, citing low inflation expectations as a key trigger.
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NOTE: ... The NZIER Consensus Forecasts are an average of New Zealand economic forecasts compiled from a survey of financial and economic agencies. These are not NZIER's forecasts.