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1000+ jobs 'terminated' - Deloitte on 11-office national labour hire business

ELE - global recruiter went overseas, particularly the Philippines, to fill jobs here.

Jenée Tibshraeny: Govt faces tough trade-offs to improve books

The work starts now for Finance Minister Nicola Willis.

Red Sea ship attacks pose another threat to global economy

New York Times: Just as inflation eases, a key shipping route becomes a battleground.

Zespri flags major lost opportunity for SunGold kiwifruit

Loosening Northern Hemisphere SunGold growing limit on the agenda.

Dairy prices at GDT auction end 2023 strongly

Dairy prices have finished the year on a bullish note at this morning's global auction.

RBNZ digesting data before softening tough talk on inflation

Adrian Orr highlights differences between NZ and US, where there's talk of rate cuts.

ANZ cuts mortgage and deposit rates, ASB picks OCR cut by August

The bank is one of the first to drop its home loan rates.

Stalled: NZ video gaming’s horror year — and its hopes for 2024

Scandal, political arm-wrestling and some big hits.

Adrian Orr invokes ghost chips, Muldoon

Migrant numbers and sluggish GDP are a real surprise, Orr admits.

Kāinga Ora review won't slow public housing build - for now at least

Chris Bishop commits to continuing to grow the number of public houses.

Bankruptcies soar as high rates and end of Covid aid hit businesses hard

Financial Times: ‘Zombie’ companies lose lifeline.

Is the worst behind us? Business confidence on the mend

Firms' confidence in the economic outlook and their expectations rose again in December.

Reality check for self-checkout

The promise of self-checkout was alluring. But theft and gripes abound.

Activist Rakon shareholder tells board to act quickly on takeover offer

Previous chances have been blown through delays, an investor says.

City Rail Link fight: YMCA wanted $18m, Auckland Council offered $262K

Arguments put that only three basement car park levels can now be built instead of six.

Houthi pirate attacks cause chaos in vital Red Sea corridor

Houthis play Grinch, pirate attacks cause chaos in vital Red Sea corridor.

Zespri's near-monopoly export status pays off for $3 billion industry, says new report

Monopsonies are considered technically inefficient - not so Zespri, says Berl.

Car imports take a tumble in November but we still have a trade deficit

A big drop in EV imports is a strong feature of the latest overseas trade statistics.