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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Risk assets recover as Israel dominates battle against Iran; no sign of conflict spreading to elsewhere in the Middle East and Iran seeks end to hostilities. Global equities stronger, US Treasury yiel ...

Rise in investor risk aversion amid a significant escalation in Middle East tensions. Oil prices surge. Brent crude futures ...

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

Australian banks are moving to upgrade proprietary channels for mortgage generation at the expense of brokers. Expect more ...

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

Susan Harris points to some serious NZU supply and demand issues, and wants to know how Ministers and the public can be sure ...