Can water cooler talk help fix the gender pay gap? President Barack Obama seems to think so.

House prices around the country have hit a new high with the median price now topping $440,000 but sales are down 10% on last year. (+infographic)

When Mark Gozzo got a request from a stranger to connect on LinkedIn, he considered it just another chance to expand his professional network. In a month's time, it had turned into a new job.

A decline in the production of feature films last year dragged the New Zealand screen industry's revenue down 4 per cent.

A fundamental reason New Zealand interest rates and exchange rates are systematically higher than we might wish is that collectively we do not save enough.

Auckland's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in six years. So what's behind the fall and will it continue?

Prime Minister John Key has defended new oil and gas exploration permits in a major conservation park, saying it is not a National Park and mining already takes place there.

The Ministry of Education will continue to pursue a leaky schools lawsuit against Carter Holt Harvey after it failed in an attempt to have the claim quashed.

A recovery growing stronger and broader, but accompanied by inflation pressures, is the picture painted by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's latest quarterly survey .

Women should think again about directorships, for far from trailing men, it's greatly to their credit that so few are debasing themselves in this way, writes Bob Jones.

Glen Raymond has worked at Auckland's biggest gigs for 25 years and now owns Opel Security.

Property values increased at the slowest annual pace in six months in March as high-debt lending restrictions and interest rate hikes weighed on the market.

The New Zealand job market is thriving, with the number of job listings on Trade Me up 21 per cent on the same time last year.

United States stocks had a mixed week with the broader market rising on better economic data

PM John Key knows homeowners in the electorally crucial mortgage belts of Auckland are nervous about rising mortgage rates, writes Bernard Hickey.

If you are wondering what to do with your career-drifting teen, there are a number of resources that can help, writes Tom O'Neil.

The Career Coach, Joyce E.A. Russell, answers questions from readers about how to handle co-workers' annoying habits.

If ministers are tempted to smuggle a retrospective tax grab into the statute books under the cover of a Budget, they should drive that thought from their minds, writes Brian Fallow.

The government has opened eight new areas for oil and gas exploration in its 2014 Block Offer, unveiled by Energy Minister Simon Bridges.

If we are to move at a pace that keeps Auckland in the game we need to move from a government-led economy to a shared leadership, writes Michael Barnett.

John Key won't be thanking the IMF for taking a little bit of the shine off his new joint goal for bilateral trade between NZ and China to reach $30 billion by 2020, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Human resources teams will be kept busy this year as almost half of the Kiwi workforce look for a new job and employers will feel the bite.

Business confidence went from strength to only slightly less strength in the ANZ's latest monthly survey.

Business confidence slipped from a 20-year high in March, while remaining at elevated levels consistent with broad economic momentum.

More mortgage holders are opting to split their home loans into fixed and floating rate portions after the recent cash rate increase, say banks.

Team New Zealand spent $153 million in New Zealand over the last America's Cup campaign and injected a net $117 million into the Auckland economy, creating the equivalent of 1234 jobs, a report says.

The taxpayer's $36m investment in Team New Zealand has paid off handsomely according to reports released Steven Joyce today.

China has embarked on a process of financial liberalisation and the sheer numbers involved mean it will have profound implications across the region, writes Brian Fallow.

Four projects launched last decade to create or revitalise Auckland communities have endured hard times to reach milestones in their development.