"Seasonally adjusted levels of unemployment remained at 156,000 between the December 2024 and March 2025 quarters,” ...

Xu Qiyuan observes that conventional policy tools can do little to counter a crisis that the US president has caused ...

BNZ's net interest margin rose three basis points to 2.40%, its cost-to-income ratio rose 230 basis points to 38.5%, and its ...

US equities are lower, US Treasury yields are lower, and the USD is broadly weaker, with the market remaining fixated on ...

Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla has reported a catastrophic slump in New Zealand automotive sales revenue, which plummeted ...

RBNZ stress test of general insurers assesses potential response to major earthquake and severe cyber-risk incidents ...

Hélène Rey urges European officials to act quickly to capture some of the "exorbitant privilege" long enjoyed by the US ...

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

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

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

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.