Tower investment boss Sam Stubbs says there are signs New Zealand is headed for a sharemarket bubble and investors need to be wary of overvalued listed companies.

We need to broaden the criteria against which we measure the progress of Government, writes Mai Chen, to include those non-material things, like happiness and equity.

New Zealand has been ranked 21st in a 60-country globalisation survey conducted by consultants Ernst & Young.

Auckland is home to a higher proportion of high-value service sectors operating in niche areas that we are competitive in, writes Geoff Cooper.

Doctorate degrees can earn graduates more than double the national median wage five years after capping, a Ministry of Education report has found.

Artur Baptista da Silva's outspoken attacks on Portugal's austerity cuts made the bespectacled 61-year-old one of the country's leading media pundits last year.

The Reserve Bank is unlikely to cut its official cash rate, economists say, despite another quarter of weak inflation. The consumers price index fell 0.2 per cent in the December quarter, when the markets and the Reserve Bank had expected a 0.1 per cent r

Prices unexpectedly fell by 0.2 per cent during the December quarter, said Statistics NZ this morning, taking the annual rate of inflation to just 0.9 per cent. Seasonal falls in vegetable prices helped push the CPI down.

Bill English should look into a mirror next time he points the finger at Auckland Council for not doing enough to encourage affordable housing, writes Brian Rudman.

Chief executives and unionists have weighed in on the debate sparked by a soft drink boss' comments that New Zealand has an "ingrained" anti-corporate mentality.

The Government has ignored a recommendation by the United Nations for legislation to dictate a maximum number of work hours to reduce the risk to workplace health and safety.

Kiwi households have regained their appetite for debt, and it is getting rapidly more hearty, write Brian Fallow.

New Zealand's economy surged in the December quarter to the best level since mid-2007, according to the latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion.

House prices struck a new median price record of $389,000 last December, up 9.6 per cent on the same month in 2011, the Real Estate Institute of NZ says.

Job vacancies in Australia may be dwindling but the economic situation there doesn't appear to be stopping New Zealanders from taking their chances in search of a better life.

Less than a third of New Zealand businesses plan to hire new staff in the current quarter, with enhancing the performance and productivity of existing employees a priority.