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Roadblock ahead for NZ log prices
New Zealand log prices appear to have levelled out after a strong run over the last year.
New Zealand log prices appear to have levelled out after a strong run over the last year.
Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world's highest minimum wage, early results from a referendum indicate.
New Zealand tourism operators face increased competition from other countries for their slice of the $1.6 trillion of spending by international travellers.
Climate change is a mega-trend that will affect countries creditworthiness, and New Zealands worse than most, says Standard & Poors.
Join us at 12.00pm today and put your Budget 2014 questions to KPMG's Head of Tax, Paul Dunne.
Wilmar International and First Pacific Co have sweetened their takeover bid for Goodman Fielder by A$100 million, but won't go any higher without a rival offer.
I hate Budgets. I lack the financial analytical skills to be able to see through all the smoke and mirrors and for years they were basically boring.
For political tragics, Budget days are the most exciting outside election days. The uninterested 99 per cent will remain more passionate about Queen's Birthday traffic queues.
Finance Minister Bill English may have lived up to his promise there would be no lolly scramble in the Budget.
Social security and welfare spending rises $625 million to just under $24 billion. Much of that is down to a $687 million increase in New Zealand Superannuation payments offset by small falls elsewhere.
Aspiring first-home buyers looking for a leg-up into the property market in yesterday's Budget had little to cheer about.
Police officers have warned "something will break" if their budget is squeezed any further after the Government sliced a little more off their funding.
Tertiary student Chris Wiggins was hoping for a boost for transport in the Budget - and was happy with what was announced.
Editorial: The Budget manages the election-year trick of appearing both fiscally responsible and socially generous.
The Government is putting another $100 million into getting beneficiaries such as solo parents and the sick into work and stopping them ending up on welfare in the long term.
Jobs and companies could be lost if masses of cheap overseas construction materials flood our boarders, say building companies.
New Zealanders will welcome the family focus of today's Budget, Prime Minister John Key says.
Finance Minister Bill English has defended today’s modest Budget measure to trim the cost of new homes as one step in a larger programme to improve home affordability.
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A data visualisation of where the Budget money is going.
Herald economics editor Brian Fallow gives his thoughts on today's Budget