This page provides guidance on how and when we release information including monetary policy decisions, statistics, news, research and Official Information Act requests.
You can also see what announcements are coming up on our events page.
We tweet a link to the main media release on our Twitter channel and email the release to our email subscribers.
It can take a few minutes for information to appear on our website.
Announcement | Frequency per year | Time of release | Where to find |
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Monetary policy and OCR | 7 times | 2pm | Initially, for market participants, on our Bloomberg and Refinitiv pages and then on our website and social media |
Monetary Policy Statements (MPS) | Quarterly (4 times) | 2pm | Our website and social media |
If our website is unavailable, and we can't publish the OCR decision at 2pm, we will:
We have changed the name of the OCR announcements to Monetary Policy Review (MPR) announcements.
This reflects the fact that other monetary tools apart from the OCR, such as forward guidance and large-scale asset purchases, are being used to achieve the Monetary Policy Committee's mandate of low and stable inflation and full employment.
The naming of MPS announcements will remain unchanged.
You can watch a livestream of our media conferences for Monetary Policy Statements and Financial Stability Reports at the following times:
Media conference | Time |
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Monetary Policy Statements | 3pm |
Financial Stability Reports | 1pm |
We upload a replay of the media conference to our YouTube channel within 24 hours.
There is no media conference for the Monetary Policy Review.
The following information outlines our attendance policy for onsite Reserve Bank media conferences:
We give more than 120 presentations to business, community and sector groups and organisations throughout the year.
If you are interested in finding out more about our speaking engagements or would like to invite a Reserve Bank speaker to your event, email [email protected]
Find out what public speeches are coming up on our speech page, which lists upcoming and past speeches.
The statistics calendar allows you to see what dates the economic and financial data we produce is released. Data is released from 3pm NZT on the day of the release.
You can find previous release dates by inputting a date in the Date from and Date to fields on the Statistics release calendar.
It can take up to 15 minutes to become available on our website depending on the amount of data we're releasing. We cannot guarantee an exact publication time for tables and related documents to appear on the website. If you are having issues accessing the data, clear your cache (Chrome, Edge and Safari) or use private browsing (Chrome, Edge and Safari).
If you do not know the name of the statistical series you are looking for, try searching the directory of statistics tables.
Directory of statistics tables
We also have a handy guide that explains how to use our Statistics pages and interpret the data.
We have three long-running series as follows:
Bulletins: Articles by our staff covering a wide range of issues related to central banking, the financial system and the New Zealand economy.
Discussion papers: Detailed scholarly research by staff economists and visiting scholars of interest mainly for academic and professional economists.
Analytical Notes: Background papers prepared by our staff. Unless otherwise stated, views expressed in these papers are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Reserve Bank.