Half of New Zealand firms plan to raise prices next quarter
The headline number understates the speed Stats NZ reported annual CPI of 4.1% for the June 2026 quarter, the highest reading since December 2023 and well clear of the Reserve Bank's 1-3% target band. That is a one-percentage-point jump from the 3.1% recorded...
The polls average 4.8%. The Herald’s model says 5.3%. Here’s why those are different numbers.
Strip away the election modelling and take one latest published result from each polling organisation: Opportunity remains below Parliament’s 5%...
Consumption pricing turns a free AI tool into a real operating cost
From novelty to line item The conversation about business AI has moved on. The question is no longer whether it works...
Retailers are now expected to be age cops for every phone sale
A cleaner ban with a dirty problem ACT leader David Seymour has spent years opposing social media bans as unworkable and...
Consumption pricing turns a free AI tool into a real operating cost
$10 million fines await businesses whose pricing algorithms collude without anyone knowing
Decades of routing through Auckland are over as Invercargill gets direct cable to Melbourne
Cutting basic research kills export companies that have not been founded yet
Government loosened toy imports just as a benzene recall hit shelves
A recall that stops at the border In June 2026, Hull City Council testing found benzene in the outer layer of...
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