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Auckland home affordability improves (marginally)
Auckland housing affordability has improved slightly - but the city is now 59 per cent less affordable than the rest of New Zealand.
Auckland housing affordability has improved slightly - but the city is now 59 per cent less affordable than the rest of New Zealand.
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New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 Index fell as the market caught up with global losses on a day of relatively subdued trading.
New Zealand shares extended their slide from the record high reached on December 31.
China's securities regulator signals its open to tweaking the country's new market circuit breakers after analysts blamed the rules for exacerbating a rout in stocks yesterday.
The New Zealand dollar edged lower after Chinese stocks recovered from a sharp decline that sapped investors' appetite for risk-sensitive assets around the world.
Chinese stock trading stops after the CSI 300 Index plunged more than seven per cent.
The New Zealand and Australian dollars sagged amid concern that China's economy remains anemic after a fifth month of contraction in factory activity.
China's economic rebalancing remained intact as the first economic reports of 2016 signaled manufacturing weakened for a fifth straight month.
India will be laying out the welcome mat to global bond funds on day one of 2016.
More U.S. companies have defaulted on their debt this year than issuers from any other country or region, says S&P analysts.
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The kiwi reached 68.36 US cents overnight, touching a two-month high.
Sir Ron Brierley's Mercantile Investments raised $1.4 million in a discounted share placement to local wholesale investors.
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Lower interest rates in New Zealand generally stoke housing inflation. This creates few new jobs and little additional output, writes Peter Lyons.
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Migration flows into New Zealand continue to surge, with the latest figures from Statistics New Zealand showing a net gain of 6300 migrants last month.
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