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'West is best' say global economists
Can we look forward to a brighter future? Will our children do better than us? The West is now looking at a richer future.
Can we look forward to a brighter future? Will our children do better than us? The West is now looking at a richer future.
Major El Nino events, which typically create extreme weather conditions, immediately sap New Zealand's economic growth and put downward pressure on inflation.
Much of the suspicion around the TPP agreement is fundamentally misconceived says international lawyer Gary Born.
The kiwi touched 74.23 US cents, and was trading at 74.43 cents at 8am in Wellington, from 74.99 cents at 5pm yesterday.
Famed stock picker Warren Buffett says his company, Berkshire Hathaway, should look beyond investment expertise when selecting its next chief executive.
China has had 35 years of hypergrowth, but now it's over. It's going to have to settle for really, really good growth instead.
BNZ cash earnings have risen 4.5 per cent in the six months ended March 31 to $418 million as growth in housing and business lending, and lower funding costs, drove up net interest income.
The kiwi dropped yesterday after data showed annual wage inflation in the private sector slowed to a 0.3 per cent pace in the three months ended March 31.
International dairy prices fell for the fourth time in a row at this morning's GlobalDairyTrade auction.
ANZ New Zealand boss David Hisco says the country's biggest bank is working closely with rural customers as falling dairy prices begin to bite, but farmers are better placed to deal with the....
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has hailed New Zealand's tax system as a potential model for Australia’s economic growth.
Average sales prices for Auckland residential property sold by the city's biggest agency rose by $918/day last month compared to March.
Exchange operator NZX has bought livestock market information business iFarm for an undisclosed sum.
Market signals suggest international dairy prices will again fall at this week's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.
Grant Robertson has a tough job as Labour's finance spokesman. He has to critique National's performance without yet having formulated his party's own economic policy.
The Saudi Arabian visit was a return to the old Key model of jet setting, glad-handing and grandstanding, which we can now see has never worked, writes Paul Little.
So what if the track back to a fiscal surplus is proving longer and more uphill than it looked a year or even six months ago, asks Brian Fallow.
Workers’ goals are changing and employers must think about how to retain staff.
New Zealand export log prices fell to a seven-month low as high inventories on Chinese ports dent demand in the country's largest market.
Finance Minister Bill English has confirmed that this month’s Budget will see the surplus forecast a year ago turn into a deficit slightly higher than forecasted in December.
QV's latest figures show the average property value for the Auckland region has now broken into the $800,000s, fuelled by Auckland City-South.
In the midst of the madness of the Northland byelection, an important story about the New Zealand economy was being told, writes Grant Robertson.
Fonterra has fallen into line with market expectations after oversupply and extreme volatility on world dairy markets prompted the co-operative to once again lower its farmgate milk price.
The Reserve Bank has opened the door to a cut in the official cash rate, but the conditionality attached suggests any decision to go through with it remains some way off.
More innovative and flexible, more holistic and integrated, more devolved and decentralised, more empowering to those in need. Such are the ways in which the Productivity Commission believes the....