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Brian Fallow: Climate costs left for the future
It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.
It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.
The price of Fonterra Shareholders' Fund units fell to their lowest point since listing after the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction registered another fall in product prices.
Labour leader Andrew Little says the Reserve Bank should target property speculators to ease the pressures on the Auckland housing market.
The New Zealand dollar has slipped to 98.84 Australian cents from 99.03 cents yesterday ahead of Australian employment data today.
International dairy prices fell for the third time in a row at this morning’s GlobalDairyTrade auction.
Regulatory moves to curb bank lending to residential property investors are a live possibility, says Reserve Bank deputy governor Grant Spencer.
The New Zealand dollar is back trading above 99 Australian cents and sparking renewed speculation of parity.
The two Budget-related announcements risked giving every impression that National is running on empty, reckons John Armstrong.
Better than nothing, but only just. The increase in funding for business research and development grants Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday looks even less impressive in light of numbers....
For the March quarter as a whole core retail sales paid for by credit, debit or charge cards were up 2.7 per cent - the fastest quarterly growth since December 2006.
China's worst economic slowdown in 25 years will hit Australia as iron ore prices tumble, says the World Bank.
Prime Minister John Key believes a surplus is still possible but the Government will not deliver a slash-and-burn Budget to get one.
Latest stats show New Zealand consumers are starting to spend up in the shops, with electronic card spending up 3.7 per cent last month.
'Young and fabulous,' it says on the teenager's T-shirt, in big gold letters. If it is meant to be ironic, it isn't.
Amid all the chatter of parity this week, I heard not a word of credit given to those who changed the country, writes John Roughan.
Profits were squeezed in New Zealand's banking sector during the final quarter of last year as non-interest income decreased and impaired asset expenses rose.
Toby Manhire writes an open letter to the dollar, the plucky little fighter that’s given those Aussies one in the eye.
HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham, who first coined the phrase "rock star" in January last year to describe New Zealand's economic growth.
What current house prices represent is not dissimilar to what the dollar represents: success, writes Mike Hosking.