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Pre-retirees will be hardest hit by Covid fallout, commissioner warns
Retirement Commissioner wants to incentivise more people to invest in KiwiSaver.
Dairy to the rescue: Banks raise their milk price forecasts
Westpac has lifted its farmgate milk price forecast to $7.0/kg from $6.50.
From the Financial Times
Snap reaps benefits of Facebook boycott
Snap posted record revenues, boosted by Facebook's misfortune.
Social media firms under fire after France terrorist attack
Things began and ended on social media.
The threat of long economic Covid looms
Financial Times: Policymakers must avoid the mistake of withdrawing support too soon.
Business Opinion
How the markets have reacted to NZ's election outcome
Fiscal policy must come later, but when it does, business will be watching.
Fran O'Sullivan: How much Green will be in Labour's machine
COMMENT: Ardern doesn't need outside support but Shaw and Peters may be assets.
Juha Saarinen: Why phone: Did Apple go big on 5G too soon?
iPhone 12's next-gen system solid but tech needed to unleash it still in pipeline.
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ANZ chair Sir John Key, bankers fear Reserve Bank stimulation creating asset bubbles
The bosses of the big four banks talk about the big challenges ahead.
Owen Glenn's $40m battle with former Hanover co-owner Eric Watson
Watson's jail sentence comes 12 years after the Hanover Finance debacle.
Kiwi tech tackles silent struggle affecting millions of women
An idea five years in the making is ready to go to market.
Revealed: NZ Super Fund's largest tech investments, Facebook flop
After the mosque shootings, the $49 billion fund pressured social media platforms.
Appeals dropped, $1b Hamilton housing and waterways project to start
Interest is already strong from land-starved Hamilton home builders.
Allbirds branches out into apparel
Co-founder Tim Brown says eco-friendly company wants to revolutionise textile industry.
Business Hub
Air NZ Dreamliner captain and union boss: The weird world of flying through a pandemic
Andrew Ridling is a pilot union boss in the midst of aviation's worst commercial crisis.
Business Hub: Andrew Ridling on how COVID-19 has affected pilots
Andrew Ridling, President of the NZ Air Line Pilots Association talks about the affect covid-19 has had on Pilots. Video / Greg Bowker
Business Hub: James Lee on buying his first shares and his global expansion plans
The boss of New Zealand's largest investment bank talks about why it's expanding now.
Latest FromTechnology
Why US Govt is after Google's search engine monopoly
Washington wants to break up Google, claiming it has illegally crushed competition.
Study: Covid speeds up robot jobs revolution
Machines and humans could be split equally by 2025.
Netflix reports slump in subscriber growth
A return to some semblance of normality has slowed Netflix subscriber growth.
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Bryce Wilkinson: IMF's fiscal forecasts make grim reading for NZ
The fresh Labour Government is now fully accountable for the quality of public spending.
$300m data centres for Hobsonville, Silverdale
Pandemic-era working-from-home boom has fuelled demand for cloud computing.
Genesis resorts to thermal backup as hydro lake levels fall
Ongoing drought conditions have affected New Zealand hydro-power generation capacity.
The threat of long economic Covid looms
Financial Times: Policymakers must avoid the mistake of withdrawing support too soon.
Mood of the Boardroom
Could NZ write off all its debt? What business leaders think
Business leaders aren't buying into debt writeoff, finds Liam Dann.
Mood of the boardroom: CEOs rate the Cabinet
Finance Minister and PM top Herald poll of CEOs, writes Fran O'Sullivan.
Both parties lacking in policies to give us confidence
Both parties took a long time to put details of their policies in front of the electorate.