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 ...

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

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

The economy may be 'crawling for a little while longer', while previous house price forecasts have 'proved too optimistic', ...

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

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

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

Changes to New Zealand's radio frequency spectrum regulation mooted, in the wake of Aussie warship-induced internet outages ...

Such a policy therefore could do lasting harm. America’s universities have long produced the fundamental research that has ...