Trade Minister Todd McClay has accepted the role of Vice Chair for the World Trade Organisation’s 13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi next year.
“I...
New Zealand’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.3 percent in the September 2023 quarter, following a revised 0.5 percent increase in the June 2023...
With Parliament now having passed the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Economic Objective) Amendment Bill, the coalition Government has met its 100-Day commitment to...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to repeal the Fair Pay Agreement legislation by Christmas 2023.
“We are moving quickly to remove this legislation...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to extend the availability of 90-day trial periods to all employers.
“Extending 90-day trial periods to all employers...
The seasonally adjusted volume of building activity in New Zealand was $8.6 billion in the September 2023 quarter, down 2.4 percent compared with the...
Big names have been hiking prices faster than their costs increased, says Competition and Markets Authority.
Many popular grocery suppliers have been pushing up prices...
Aggressive anti-inflation policies are hurting economic growth, a report warns.
Central bankers’ continued fight to bring rampant inflation under control could plunge developed countries into...
Each nation in the world has its own culture, governance structures, traditions, property, borders, and peoples.
We must preserve the diversity and sovereignty of nations...
Global shortages and high demand for chocolate have sent futures soaring.
Prices for cocoa soared to their highest level in nearly half a century this...
Bond yields have risen substantially in developed countries, with central banks offloading their vast holdings.
Sovereign bond sales could increase further next year as budget...
For any business to survive in the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of the corporate world, it must be adaptable.
However, as we move forward into...
Filled jobs rose by 13,046 when seasonally adjusted in October 2023 compared to September 2023, according to figures released by Stats NZ today.
The increase...
The Turkish central bank’s rate hike was double economists’ expectations.
Türkiye’s central bank hiked its key interest rate to 40% on Thursday in an effort...
Share of US Treasuries owned by overseas holders has shrunk significantly in ten years, the newspaper reports.
Demand for US outstanding government debt from overseas...
The country’s economy saw a sharp contraction in the third quarter.
The Japanese economy slipped into a contraction in the period from July to September,...
There was a record net migration loss of 44,700 New Zealand citizens in the September 2023 year, according to provisional estimates released by Stats...
The country’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling was exceeded in January, and later scrapped altogether until 2025.
The US national debt could surge by $20 trillion...
British private sector output dropped in September, prompting firms to cut staff, S&P Global says.
Companies in the UK’s private sector have been downsizing their...
Passenger traffic has rebounded almost to pre-Covid levels, the industry body reports.
Global passenger plane traffic continued its post-Covid recovery in July, driven by surging...
Arrears have hit a seven-year high due to rising interest rates and unemployment.
A growing number of British households are falling behind on loan payments,...
Tim Gurner’s claim that workers are paid too much and unemployment should rise sound exactly like a caricature from Das Kapital.
Tim Gurner, founder of...
The cost of gasoline and diesel jumped significantly in August, data shows.
UK drivers have been hit by rocketing fuel prices which saw their sharpest...
Household bills have soared since Western countries largely abandoned Russian oil, natural gas and coal supplies.
Energy prices across the EU have been surging, raising...
Prices have experienced their sharpest increase since 2016 in July, official data shows.
Private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK have jumped by...
'New Zealand LOYAL is committed to creating an atmosphere of cheaper goods and services and increasing economic activity as a whole, while allowing for...
A closer look at Labour’s costings for their policy to remove GST from fruit and vegetables reveals a schoolboy error equating to quarter-of-a-billion-dollar hole,...
At the announcement today in Lower Hutt, leader Chris Hipkins also said Working for Families payments would increase.
'Today I'm announcing that if re-elected Labour...
In an attempt to combat surging inflation, the Federal Reserve has implemented its fastest interest rate hikes since the 1980s, which has yielded unintended...
The finance guru earlier warned that hiking interest rates to battle inflation may have a negative effect on stocks.
Renowned writer and economist Robert Kiyosaki...