US Federal Reserve leaves rates on hold as expected. FOMC median forecast still shows 50bp of rate cuts this year. Limited ...

US Fed stays hawkish in the face of inflation threats, cuts US growth outlook; US housing data weak; Japanese factory orders ...

Most businesses are satisfied with how Christopher Luxon has managed New Zealand’s relationship with China, but dissent is ...

An IMF review of New Zealand's lagging productivity finds sharp weaknesses in public investment, private innovation, and the options for funding innovation in sectors that could drive improvements ...

Statistics NZ's Selected Price Indexes show that food prices rose 4.4% in the past year, while rent prices had their lowest ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been called the ‘AI Oppenheimer’ – but he dismisses concerns: AI is just ‘processing data’ ...

Risk assets recover as Israel dominates battle against Iran; no sign of conflict spreading to elsewhere in the Middle East and Iran seeks end to hostilities. Global equities stronger, US Treasury yiel ...

G7 meets amid war and tariff turmoil; US data weak; Canadian housing strong; China data very mixed; Airbus wins early at ...

Ross Stitt notes banking giant CBA is valued far more than any other Australian listed company, including any miner. He traces a remarkable rise ...

We look at the weakening bank appetite to lend for business purposes and find that after the scrum got screwed by Basel III, ...

While acknowledging “the DCS is likely to change the risk-profile of most deposit-takers,” it should “place downward pressure on deposit rates and increase competition in the deposit-taking market, by ...

Services sector activity drops sharply and slumps to levels last seen in June 2024 at the start of the recession ...