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

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

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 ...

Terry Baucher talks to Chris Cunniffe about how tax pooling works and why corporate taxpayers use systems like this. They also look at the reasons satisfaction with the IRD is now ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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