There is further solid job expansion ahead of us. We forecast annual employment growth to remain above 3.0% right through into 2016. This will be highly supportive of continued economic momentum even in the face of tumbling commodity prices. Accordingly, we find today’s data supportive of our view that the RBNZ will resume rate hikes late in 2015 notwithstanding the obvious risks to that assumption.
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