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Negative OCR could slash mortgage rates

New funding scheme could see mortgage rates tumble, amid expectations of negative OCR.

Economy faces deeper cut but 2021 outlook brighter

New lockdown means tougher end to 2020 but China growth offers some light at end of tunnel

OCR to drop below zero, banks predict

Reserve Bank now tipped by bank economists to slash the OCR below zero early next year.

Jarden Brief: Strong rebound as aged-care operators lead market up

And household stimulus spending boosts JB Hi-Fi.

Second lockdown a wake-up call to 'go digital' for small businesses

Kiwi company offers free website design and set up for small businesses to go digital.

Jeremy Sutton: How to juggle work and home life in lockdown

How to juggle work and home life.

Liam Dann: How our brains are reacting in a time of stress and uncertainty

We're hard-wired to hate uncertainty but coping with it offers our best chance of success.

Liam Dann: What lockdown restrictions will really mean for economy

In the grand scope of the Covid downturn the impact of this lockdown is not catastrophic.

Hospitality businesses call for takeaways to be permitted at alert level 4

Letting business still provide food would save thousands of jobs.

RBNZ shows 'preference' for negative OCR

Central bank could lend direct to retail banks to ensure OCR cuts get to customers.

Govt contemplates Auckland wage subsidy if lockdown continues

Grant Robertson has met with Treasury officials over a possible Auckland-targeted package.

No one believes it's going to only go on for three days - BusinessNZ

BusinessNZ urges Government to release all it knows about the latest outbreak.

Reserve Bank to print more money - up to $100 billion

The Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate unchanged.

How level 3 impacts 250,000 Auckland workers

Back to the drawing board for economists trying to make forecasts.

Covid-19 job losses hit oldest and youngest workers hardest

True picture of UK jobs market 'much worse' than official data indicated.

Retail booms as Kiwis eat, drink and buy new furniture

Hospitality and home building drive card spending to a higher levels than a year ago.

How strong is the economic recovery? Reserve Bank to deliver its verdict

To print or not to print - the RBNZ's next big call is whether to expand the QE programme.

UK poised to suffer the biggest Covid-19 blow of any major economy

Britain's economy shrinks by 23% over the first-half of 2020 due to drop in spending.