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John Key: Take a bow, New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key writes exclusively for the Herald on Sunday after the Kaikoura earthquake.
Prime Minister John Key writes exclusively for the Herald on Sunday after the Kaikoura earthquake.
COMMENT: As much as we'd like his wall to block off the Trump-effect from the rest of the world, no one is immune in the still globalised world.
Donald Trump has been declared bankrupt six times. Economists are afraid he could do the same to the US economy.
It is too soon to say how the earthquake recovery costs will impact on any tax-cut plans by National, says the Finance Minister.
Rising employment, low inflation and a recovery in the dairy sector point to robust economic growth.
Stocks on both sides of the Atlantic gained, and so did the US dollar, after Federal Chair Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress cemented
COMMENT: We are living in an age of rising inequalities on a variety of fronts. It is the same in many other countries.
COMMENT: Our trade relationship with the US just got harder.
Directors are more positive than previous years about the future of business and New Zealand's economy in the coming 12 months.
The changes to the freight routes in and out of Canterbury have seen an 18 per cent increase in cost.
Wall Street fell with bank stocks, while some tech shares including Apple continued a rebound from a recent slide.
Wellington's economic activity has bounced back to relative normality after the CBD shutdown following this week's earthquake.
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Donald Trump has called John Key and offered his sympathies over the earthquake and spoke about the TPP, and Sir Bob Charles.
Tech stocks rose as investors took advantage of their post-US-election slump.
In a phone conversation, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have vowed to work together on 'strategic economic issues' and Syria.
Learn from Christchurch and subsidise businesses hit by the devastating Kaikoura earthquake, former mayor Sir Bob Parker has told the Government.
Steven Joyce has been charged with putting together a "business continuity package" for Kaikoura.
Thanks to Brexit and Donald Trump's successful presidential election "the whole world has got a lot more complicated", says special
US Treasuries dropped, while the greenback strengthened amid expectations Trump will boost spending and inflation.
COMMENT: If new President starts spending then US interest rates will move higher and mortgage rates here will follow.
The earthquake will put pressure on the construction sector and could bring further interest rate cuts, says the ASB.
It was perhaps the most surprising trade in a record-setting week on Wall Street.
COMMENT: If Trump carries out his trade and defence threats, NZ would face the risk of slower global economic growth, higher interest rates and fewer capital flows.
Trump's presidential victory has tossed new uncertainties into the carefully crafted plans of the US Federal Reserve.
Trump's election victory this week ignited a frenzy of buying in industrial metals.
US traffic to Immigration NZ is up 24-fold while Trade Me is seeing more Americans browsing jobs and property in the wake of the election.
WATCH: Why the US sharemarket continued to rally on the back of a win for Donald Trump in the presidential election.
The New Zealand sharemarket ends weaker and well short of its recent record high as the reality of higher bond yields in a post US-election world starts to sink in.
One in ten Kiwi house hunters are holding off on buying in the hope that the property market will crash, a new survey has found.