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'Show contrition': Nicola Willis' anger as housing market boils over
Messy unemployment data and the Financial Stability Report were released today.
Messy unemployment data and the Financial Stability Report were released today.
Stats NZ data shows the official unemployment rate has held steady at 3.2 per cent.
Labour shortages have likely driven the strongest wage growth since 2009.
It was the first Aussie rate rise during an election campaign since 2007.
Financial Times: "In human terms, people's incomes are down and hardship is up."
Four regions had record numbers of new homes consented, Stats NZ said.
OPINION: We've seen this scenario before and seen what to do - so why aren't we doing it?
Occupancy in Auckland plunged to less than a third in February and scheme aims at reboot.
With record low unemployment a short sharp inflation beating recession might not be so bad
Kiwis spent more on their credit cards in March, new data shows.
There isn't any place on earth with more opportunity than Aotearoa, writes Doug Steiner.
The gilded age, where billionaires made the rules, was not a great time for workers.
And Netflix loses 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022.
OPINION: Grant Robertson has presided over a 40 per cent increase in Govt spending.
Rising domestic inflation, which could prove hard to beat, is worrying economists.
Act has proposed scrapping "zombie" govt departments, Greens want benefit increases.
Cheree Kinnear takes to the streets of Auckland city to find out how Kiwis are being affected by the latest increases to inflation. Video / NZ Herald
Largest movement since the June 1990 quarter.
OPINION: Our editorial on today's announcement of the CPI for the March 2022 quarter.
OPINION: Inflation is bad news for the Govt, but could anyone have done a better job?
OPINION: Most of these responses come with a sting in the tail.
Luxon says Kiwi farmers are already "the most carbon-efficient in the world".
Russia is on the brink of a major default on its foreign debt.
Economy to recover this quarter despite ongoing rough patches.
Extended supply issues caught out central banks, Adrian Orr told the IMF.
Official inflation figures are set to rise when they are released on Thursday.
OPINION: John Gascoigne writes our current straits have been decades in the making.
Right of Reply: Union responds to Richard Prebble column.
Central banks' hawkish move to end large-scale asset purchases and raise interest rates
There ain't no inflation debate like a Texas-sized inflation debate.