<i>Rob Cameron:</i> Building a bridge over troubled investment waters
Many New Zealanders don't trust the finance sector - financial advisers and the companies that provide investment products.
Many New Zealanders don't trust the finance sector - financial advisers and the companies that provide investment products.
The Reserve Bank is expected to signal on Thursday an earlier start to interest-rate tightening.
More proof today, as if it were needed, that Barack Obama's administration “gets it”.
A number of banks and large finance companies have made changes to deposit rates, with rates generally being pushed up.
Kiwibank is increasing its fixed mortgage rates for the second time this month.
A jury has begun deciding the fate of the two Bear Stearns managers whose hedge funds imploded in 2007, marking the start of the financial crisis.
The consumers price index (CPI) rose 1.3 per cent in the latest September quarter, higher than analysts were expecting for a recession-hit economy.
Today's CPI figures show a broader and stronger inflation that you would expect in an economy enfeebled by a prolonged recession.