The Reserve Bank is expected to keep its official cash rate unchanged at 3.5 per cent on Thursday but in the accompanying statement to shift the guidance needle slightly to the easier side of neutral.

Land tax might be one of the answers to reducing tax incentives for rental property investors, writes Bernard Hickey.

The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.

A speech by the Reserve Bank's assistant governor and chief economist John McDermott gives support to market expectations that the next move in interest rates is likely to be down.

A former National MP and author of The Good Lobbyist's Guide, has been getting in ministers' ears, urging them to stop subsidising the loss-making operations of KiwiRail.

A new study has found the need to control one's image for job security is prevalent among expectant mothers.

Vivek Wadhwa explains why it is a great time to be an entrepreneur rather than taking job offers from big companies.

When it comes to the workplace gender diversity divide, opinions are mixed. Is progress being made? Or is it just more of the same?

New Zealand should take a leaf out of Australia's book in terms of what not to do in the face of a commodities boom, says Paul Bloxham, HSBC's chief economist for Australia and New Zealand.

The seasons in George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" aren't regular or celestial, just like business cycles.

Were it not for the annual increase in the tax on tobacco the consumers price index would have recorded outright deflation for the year to March.

Inflation is down again, with falling petrol prices pushing the consumers price index down 0.3 per cent in the March quarter.

New welfare benefit figures confirm that New Zealand is splitting into two: Auckland and Christchurch, and everywhere else.

It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.

A New Plymouth retail store sacked shop assistant Ericia Durning after she took home a car magazine without permission last year.

The boss of a technology start-up in Seattle has shocked his employees by raising his company's minimum wage to US$70,000 ($92,160).

The price of Fonterra Shareholders' Fund units fell to their lowest point since listing after the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction registered another fall in product prices.

A shop worker who was fired and reported to police for taking home a magazine has been awarded more than $9000 in compensation.

How pleasing it was to see Labour Minister Michael Woodhouse walk back from the worst excesses of zero-hour contracts this week, Dita De Boni writes.

Too often the purpose of why a company exists becomes lost in an unrelenting focus on the bottom-line.

Just as Labour governments are prone to cater to even the more extravagant wishes of trade unionists, so their National counterparts can find it difficult to resist the over-the-top whims of....

New Zealand's wealthiest philanthropists and community trusts are being urged to link up with local employers to create jobs for unemployed young people.