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Editorial: Super fund should be first in queue for spare cash
Editorial: The Govt's finances have finished the last fiscal year in much better shape than expected - so it's time contributions to the NZ Super Fund resumed.
Editorial: The Govt's finances have finished the last fiscal year in much better shape than expected - so it's time contributions to the NZ Super Fund resumed.
Bad weather, the America's Cup and Lotto are the likely causes of a sharp slowdown in card spending late last month.
More than 30pc of New Zealand businesses have reported optimism in the latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion - the highers level since March 2010.
On Oct 17 the US faces its first-ever default on its $16.7 trillion debt - something that could plunge the nation - and the world - into a crisis worse than 2008.
The government has posted a smaller operating deficit than forecast and affirmed its target to reach a surplus by 2015.
Ambition and speed. That's what leaders of the 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership should seek as they meet in Bali this week, writes Phil O'Reilly and Jay Timmons.
The prospect of direct Emirates flights between Auckland and Dubai - which would become one of the world's longest commercial aviation routes.
For a man profoundly worried by the unsustainable track the world is on, Sir Jonathon Porritt is remarkably cheerful.
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Westpac has dropped its two-year fixed rate home loan but at the same time hiked its one-year rate.
Real estate companies are at odds over whether the introduction of lending restrictions has affected the property market.
The introduction of an Airbus A380 aircraft on Emirates' daily Dubai-Brisbane-Auckland route will boost annual capacity on the service by 100,000 seats.
The Government's refusal to do much of anything to curb New Zealand's emissions is as economically myopic as it is morally contemptible.
The US Government began a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years yesterday, putting as many as 800,000 federal employees in limbo.
Japanese manufacturers are increasingly optimistic about the business outlook in the months ahead.
First-home buyers in the provinces will be given a subsidy of up to $20,000 to move into vacant state houses, Housing Minister Nick Smith announced today.