NZIER's monetary policy shadow board believes the Reserve Bank should leave the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent tomorrow but that the next best option would be a cut.

The prospect of further rises in the Reserve Bank's official cash rate has disappeared over the horizon.

New Zealand shares rose to a new record close yesterday as holidays in Auckland and Australia kept trading volumes light.

Global markets are braced for an extended bout of extreme volatility after left-wing party Syriza stormed to victory in the Greek elections.

A big marketing drive is on to draw more Chinese people to NZ real estate and the businesswoman behind it expects a huge upswing in investment.

Renters can strike a bargain when moving into a vacant property but they won't avoid rental price increases, a property expert says.

Renters have been sheltered from the otherwise volatile housing market with rental prices remaining steady over the past months.

Global Brokers NZ has so far returned more than half of its clients' funds, says the Financial Markets Authority.

Oil bulls finally caught a break as prices capped their first weekly advance since November.

KiwiSavers collectively had more than $21 billion in their accounts. Those are some pretty big numbers, so what do fees mean for individual KiwiSaver balances?

Financial markets will this week find whether the Swiss National Bank's fears were well-founded when the European Central Bank announces its plan to revive economic growth.

A natural outcome of a market economy must be inequality of incomes. They are a necessary and desirable outcome, writes Peter Lyons.

Mega-miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are expected to announce more record iron ore production this week despite the commodity's price dive.

"We've got houses more expensive than LA. How is this possible?" A new survey finds Auckland's surging housing market is pricier than New York, Brisbane and Boston.

Big gold producers are making plans to wind down some operations in different parts of the country while keeping a close eye on the price of the precious metal.

Fallout from the Swiss central bank's surprise move to ditch the franc's cap against the euro spread to Queen St yesterday, with an Auckland-based currency brokerage announcing it was shutting down....

Switzerland's central bank has dropped a bombshell on foreign exchange markets by withdrawing its currency peg against the euro, driving the Swiss franc sharply higher and pushing other currencies,....

More than 60 billion ($116 billion) was wiped off the value of Switzerland's leading companies after the central bank scrapped the cap on the Swiss franc against the euro.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president John Williams, who will vote on policy this year, said raising US interest rates in June would be a close call amid "strong momentum" in the....

Kiwifruit marketer Zespri faces a positive outlook this year but there are headwinds - the New Zealand dollar's strength against the currencies of its two biggest export destinations, Japan and....

The New Zealand dollar pushed on to a 21-month high against the euro yesterday as the spectre of deflation swept through Europe's financial markets.