Stocks on Wall St and in Europe rose after an unexpected interest rate cut by the European Central Bank and the vote backdown from the Greek PM.

World sharemarkets dropped overnight after the Greek Prime Minister sought to silence critics by unexpectedly calling for a referendum.

Wage increases accelerated in the last quarter, but is still soft enough to keep the Reserve Bank from hiking interest rates anytime soon. The labour cost index rose 0.6 percent in the last...

Halloween is likely to be a lot less spooky than it appeared to be mere days ago with October set to close as the best performing month for Wall Street in decades.

Slowly, but surely, Alan Bollard and the New Zealand economy are turning Japanese.

New Zealand needs to avoid a costly regulatory over-reaction to the Christchurch earthquakes, says Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard.

Anyone hoping for a weekend fix to the global banking sector will have to wait a little longer - perhaps a lot longer.

Now the dust has settled on 'Double-Downgrade Day', it's worth looking at what it all means.

Greece's sovereign debt woes could end up affecting New Zealand's access to credit and slowing down the country's economic growth, says Alan Bollard.

New Zealand's economy probably slowed from its surprisingly robust first-quarter pace in the second three months of 2011 as construction stayed weak and manufacturing continued to tread water.

Bernard Hickey with ten questions about the European debt mess and what it might mean for New Zealand.