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Revised GDP stats prompt economic growth questions
Statistics New Zealand has made some big revisions to the history of the country's gross domestic product growth figures.

Food prices drop slightly in April
New Zealand food prices fell in April as consumers paid less for soft drinks and supermarket shopping.

Dairy herds boom, sheep numbers keep falling
The New Zealand dairy herd has grown by more than 250,000 in less that two years, says new research published today.

Electronic card spending up in April
Retail spending using debit and credit cards rose in April.

NZ wage inflation slowing, pressure off OCR
New Zealand wage inflation slowed in the first three months of the year.

Kiwi exodus to Australia continues in March
New Zealanders' exodus to Australia continued in March as more kiwis look across the Tasman for a better quality of life

Bidding wars over rental housing
Auckland tenants say they are trapped in a bidding war in a city choked for rental properties, as...

Kiwi households save money for the first time in 11 years
NZ households have recorded their first year of net savings since 2000.

Terms of trade dips on commodity price falls, strong dollar
New Zealand's terms of trade - the amount of imports that can be funded by a fixed quantity of exports - fell in the third quarter, driven by falling prices for primary sector exports and a strong kiwi dollar.

Lettuce drops 37pc, leads food prices downwards
Lettuce prices were down 37 per cent and tomatoes fell 29 per cent as a vegetable price dive led to food prices down last month....

Almost half of Kiwis just scraping by
Nearly half of all New Zealanders say they have not enough or just enough to live on.

Wages up, but private sector lags
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...

Building consents sink in September as growth stalls
New Zealand building consents stalled in September with its first monthly decline in five eroding gains over the past two months.