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Firms full of confidence
Businesses are still brimming with confidence, ANZ's monthly survey has found.
Businesses are still brimming with confidence, ANZ's monthly survey has found.
Business confidence extended its slide from a 20-year high amid expectations the central bank will continue to hike interest rates.
Building consents for residential housing rose to a six-and-a-half year high in March, snapping two months of decline.
Labour's proposal to introduce a variable contribution rate to compulsory KiwiSaver as a counter-cyclical tool has received mixed reviews from bank economists.
New Zealand is well positioned to capitalise on the largely favourable global trends.
Singapore's Wilmar International and Hong Kong's First Pacific have launched a A$1.27 billion ($1.38 billion) joint takeover bid for Australasian food group Goodman Fielder.
Do you care who made your butter and toast this morning? Do you care who made the packet the butter was wrapped in? Probably not.
The Reserve Bank has increased the Official Cash Rate by 25 basis points to 3 per cent this morning.
A raft of merger and acquisition activity in the global drug sector helped underpin equities on both sides of the Atlantic
The parent company of a firm that sold controversial currency trading software racked up a $109,000 debt for food and drink at a flash Auckland restaurant.
There is near-unanimous support on NZIER's shadow board for Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler to raise the official cash rate again tomorrow, to 3 per cent.
Here are some reasons not to embrace the view of economic analyst Jesse Colombo that NZ is hurtling towards crisis.
Interest rates could peak at a level which would see first-home buyers in Auckland spending two-thirds of household income paying the mortgage.
Editorial: Eighteen months ago, Steven Joyce had a warning for the country's universities saying he was "more than willing" for the Government to be more directive.
Another rise in the official cash rate, to 3 per cent, on Thursday is seen as a virtual certainty.
Japan, the world's third-biggest economy, has a long and notorious history of protectionism.
Auckland's sizzling property market could bring New Zealand's economy crashing down, a global economic expert warns.
New Zealand consumer confidence rose in April as Kiwis became more confident about their own financial position, giving them greater enthusiasm for buying major household items.