This Thursday GDP figures are expected to show the New Zealand economy grew by at least 3.5 per cent in the year to June 30.
ASB's economists are picking it to be as high as 3.7 per cent.
"We expect GDP lifted a whopping 1.2 per cent over the June quarter, led by construction, manufacturing and retail activity," ASB senior economist Jane Turner writes in her preview.
That will be a stunning result for an agricultural economy that has just been through one of the most dramatic dairy price slumps in living memory.
It's hard not to draw the conclusion that the rock star economy is on the comeback trail - at least in the terms that the catch-phrase was originally coined by HSBC economist Paul Bloxham.
That is to say, relatively speaking.
New Zealand currently has one of the highest growth economies compared to peers in the Western developed world.
The country hasn't had a recession in eight years now.
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