The Prime Minister recently made two announcements which appear worlds away but are intrinsically linked: making child poverty his priority this term, and attracting skilled people to New Zealand to enable continued economic growth.
Stalled free trade negotiations with India have taken a positive step forward with a commitment to schedule the next round of talks.
House values throughout New Zealand rose 1.1pc in the past three months, the slowest rise in two years, according to QV data out.
The winners are in control. They are winners because they deserve to be winners.
International dairy prices showed signs of stabilising at this morning’s GlobalDairyTrade auction.
Adult nappies will soon outsell baby nappies in Japan. And according to Harvard economics professor David Bloom, that's a stark warning for NZ.
A long-awaited free trade agreement between New Zealand and South Korea appears close to being inked following talks in Seoul last week.
If an investment approach is suitable for other beneficiaries, education and healthcare it should also be applied to government superannuation, writes Peter Lyons.
Two-way trade with China has doubled every five years since the early 1990s but the historic growth rates may not continue.
Latest figures show that New Zealand's most popular car over the past year is the same one that has topped the list for the past 26 years.
World dairy prices showed signs of levelling off today with the GlobalDairyTrade price index gaining 1.4 per cent at the fortnightly auction.
Like barristers, I hand write everything: it enables clearer expression. It's a life-long habit which I enjoy in a tactile sense.
New Zealand food prices fell in September, as cheaper cheese and seasonal fruit and vegetables offset rising meat prices.
In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.
NZ has a "rock star economy" and surveys reveal high levels of business confidence, but what could make the economy run out of puff? Peter Lyons looks at the issue.
New Zealand's "rock star" economic growth of the past couple of years has been attributed to two things: high dairy prices and the Christchurch rebuild.
World prices for a basket of New Zealand's export commodities fell 1.3 per cent last month, with dairy products once more leading the decline.
Farmers are preparing for an austere 2014/15 season after a major drop in prices at last night's GlobalDairyTrade auction, says Federated Farmers boss.
The NZ dollar edged up following its dramatic slump yesterday after the Reserve Bank confirmed speculation it intervened in the currency market.
The New Zealand dollar dropped against the greenback yesterday afternoon after the Reserve Bank released data which confirmed that it had put its money where its mouth was last month, selling $521 million in a bid to push the exchange rate lower.
Barfoot and Thompson has just released its annual landlord survey - and it revealed most are planning to put rents up by about 5 per cent.
Liam Dann offers up five reasons for economic gloom and five reasons for cheer.
On Monday I made several thousand dollars on paper. The share prices of electricity companies surged following the election.
New Zealand posted a narrower trade deficit in August as exports of live animals and dairy products rise and imports from major trading partners declined.
Fonterra has just announced a cut to its forecast farmer payout - from $5.30 a kg of milksolids - down from $6.00.
New Zealand rural confidence levels have fallen to a two-year low thanks to plunging dairy prices, according to Rabobank's latest quarterly rural confidence survey.
Young adults are increasingly becoming "property orphans" by living it up with travel and shopping rather than saving for a deposit on a house, new data shows.
NZ's current account deficit rose by $1.4b in the past three months reflecting falling dairy prices and a large revision to investment flows into the country.
The term "trickle-down effect" should be used only to describe an unfortunate ailment that can affect the elderly.
It was advertised as the Labour Party's last big policy of the election campaign. So small was it in size and so opaque was its intention that Labour's motive was anyone's guess.
The potential sale of the 14,000ha Lochinver Station (a "ridiculously small amount of land" according to Steven Joyce) to foreign interests raises a couple of important questions.