Dave Ananth suggests that treating student loans as a long-term social investment rather than a short-term fiscal instrument ...

Sharply weaker confidence, employment and GDP growth will drive weakness in the housing market, Westpac economists say ...

Monetary policy can’t fix cost of living, structural reform key to growth, RBNZ chief economist Paul Conway says ...

Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; EBOS, Ryman, Infratil, and F&P Healthcare lead the ...

Fuel specifications are temporarily easing to be in line with Australia, with the Government taking advice on allowing ...

Big turnaround in markets after Trump backs down. Whatever the truth over competing claims, equities bounce back, global ...

BNZ is back with more home loan rate increase tweaks, and some higher term deposit rates, completing a week of industry-wide ...

While it’s not something the National Party will campaign on, the electricity market is set to be a hot topic ahead of this ...

Fonterra's now forecasting a milk price for farmers of $9.70 and has announced dividends totalling 40c a share ...

Government changes in-work tax credit, aiming to 'soften the impact' of rising fuel costs caused by the conflict in the ...

Trump chickening out on Iran strategy; US data soft; EU sentiment dives; moderates start to win again in Europe; UST 10yr at 4.34%; gold down further; oil dips; NZ$1 = 58.5 USc; TWI-5 = 62.2 ...

By Chris Trotter* A small country has limited options when it comes to defending itself. Either it places its security in the ...