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The move that reset the global money price The US Federal Reserve raised its target range by 25 basis points to...
The narrative that doesn't survive the data New Zealand's housing market has now recorded eight consecutive monthly falls in sales volumes...
The best result in a decade, and nobody's celebrating Federated Farmers' 35th biannual farm confidence survey, run across 634 farms in...
Business owners tend to file defence spending under "government problem" - a budget line that competes with hospitals and roads,...
From boutique experiment to mainstream scale When the government approved three new charter schools last year, the assumption was more small,...
A backstop, not a fix The headline pitch is clean. Under the government's amendment to the Retirement Villages Act 2003, operators...
There are an estimated 19,153 people currently overstaying their visas in New Zealand, and Immigration New Zealand has worked out...
An employer solving its own problem On 15 September 2026, Waikato aircraft manufacturer NZAero and the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology...
The challenge that matters more than one hotel On 15 September 2026, Devonport Heritage filed a High Court application for judicial...
A six-decade brand runs out of road Cue Clothing Co, the Sydney-based owner of the Cue and Veronika Maine womenswear brands,...
ACT leader David Seymour used a small business policy launch on 14 September to commit to two changes that would...
The gate opens and demand floods in More than 1,500 people applied for the new skilled migrant residence pathways in the...
A tiny saving with an outsized risk The Building Amendment Bill has passed its first reading, and with it a plan...
For the first time since the pandemic, a full calendar month of visitor arrivals has matched pre-Covid levels. Stats NZ...
Where the margin actually lives now Foodstuffs North Island and South Island are jointly spending $437 million on a programme of...
The number that reframes the debate Electric cars, trucks and buses have saved New Zealand $90 million in oil imports since...
