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GDP

Roger Partridge: How asset recycling could solve NZ's infrastructure woes
OPINION: New Zealand faces a $210 billion infrastructure deficit with ageing systems.

Gloomy forecast: ANZ sees OCR falling to 2.5% as recovery falters
GDP growth will be weaker as confidence weakens, ANZ economists say.

Inside Economics: Measuring tariff turmoil uncertainty... plus inflation risks
Liam Dann takes a deeper dive into the week's economic news
Employment
Official cash rate

'Major loser': Trump's Fed comments shake Wall Street
Dow, Nasdaq slide more than 3%.

Liam Dann: RBNZ needs to cut interest rates further and faster
OPINION: The only certainty around the economic direction right now is uncertainty.

'Overstaffed': Two Reserve Bank assistant governors quit amid restructure
Departures following Adrian Orr's shock resignation as governor.
Inflation
More economy news

New inflation data due today: Are prices on the rise again?
Global tariff turmoil is making the inflation outlook more uncertain.

What submitters say about Anna Mowbray, Ali Williams' helipad application
All 1397 public submissions are out: 91% or 1277 opposed, 108 supporting, 12 are neutral.

NZ businesses struggling to see returns from their AI spend - the factors holding them back
Many NZ firms see marginal gains from AI despite heavy investment.

Many public servants using AI off their own bat, but few trained - experts raise red flags
A DIY free-for-all. Government says more training and an advisory panel are on the way.

'Cool heads, steady hand on the tiller': RBNZ responds to trade war
Paul Conway says the Reserve Bank won't overreact.

Food prices jump 3.5% in March
Grocery prices increased 0.9%, with chocolate and yoghurt leading the rise.

House prices down in most regions in year to March
Prices either static or falling throughout NZ, only six areas had price rises lately.

Door opened to microchip, pharma tariffs, Trump hints at auto tariff pause
Tesla, other automaker stocks rise after White House comments.

Property Insider: What can be done about Seascape? Rich-lister Kurt Gibbons’ waterfront Herne Bay house sale
'Our hope remains that this civil dispute is resolved as quickly as possible' - McCormick