The latest survey results showed a net 9% of firms expected economic conditions to improve in the coming months, up from 4% ...

Global equities extend losses seen in the aftermath of the strong US labour market report. US treasury yields continued to ...

Benchmark bond yields are in the middle of significant change in many countries, NZ included. While it is hard to know where ...

Without taxpayer subsidies, the new car market twisted while it shrank, but buyers gravitated to petrol hybrids rather than ...

Nouriel Roubini considers what the US president-elect's promised policy agenda will mean for growth, and inflation ...

We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST ...

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration's plans to weaken the American central bank's independence ...

Eyes on inflation's track; US jobs rose more than expected; American fear upcoming inflation; China struggles to contain ...

*Brian Easton, an independent scholar, is an economist, social statistician, public policy analyst and historian. He was the ...

Expectations are being built for big home loan rate cuts leading up to the February OCR review and beyond. But there is more ...

A bond bubble is developing in Chinese financial markets and regulators are scrambling to contain it and defuse the ...