![Workers march on Wall St, protest against big banks](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Workers march on Wall St, protest against big banks
Thousands of workers and union leaders expressed their anger at banks' lending practices and taxpayer-funded bailouts.
Thousands of workers and union leaders expressed their anger at banks' lending practices and taxpayer-funded bailouts.
Businesses have been warned not to misread any pre-GST tax hike sales boom.
The Reserve Bank has slightly opened its forecast window for the first rate hike by a month or two in this morning's statement.
Official interest rates are staying at 2.5pc but Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard hints increases are likely 'in coming months'.
NZ's rag-tag pack of financial market watchdogs will be replaced by a "super regulator" in a move to restore confidence after the finance company meltdown.
Top Goldman Sachs officials have defended their conduct in the financial crisis.
South Canterbury Finance loaned millions to failed developer Greg Olliver for a Marlborough vineyard project.
Goldman Sachs has lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding its multibillion dollar trading in the mortgage market at the height of the credit crisis.