US services surveys vary widely but markets prefer the optimistic one; no tariff deals yet; Canada faces recession; Singapore ...

Westpac NZ CEO Catherine McGrath says global economic uncertainty means 'there's more risk to the downside than the upside' ...

Brian Easton has a look at a major US study that suggests Americans are not paying enough attention to the working class ...

Signs of potential de-escalation in the trade war between the US and China plus resilient US labour market data boosts equity ...

New mortgage rate cuts from Kiwibank show the most likely market reductions in May may come in the longer fixed terms ...

Labour market figures to be released in the coming week are likely to show a continuation of the recent rise in unemployment.

Roger J Kerr says populist politicians promising the earth to get elected, invariably get found out when they discover it is ...

Westpac NZ says its housing lending grew 3%, business lending grew 1%, with deposits up 3%. "We’re the smallest of the four ...

“We are responsible for ensuring that electricity is always available wherever you need it and for making it sustainable by ...

PF Olsen reports log markets to face significant challenges as international market conditions weaken, while the local ...

A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences in what it means ...

Why the Reserve Bank is developing a Depositor Compensation Scheme product hierarchy policy and what it would mean ...