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This tip could help boost your mortgage strategy

Experts suggest considering the two-year 4.99% rate for stability.

Stocks mark worst month in years as Donald Trump’s tariffs loom

NYT: The S&P 500 registered a 5.8% decline in March, its worst month since December 2022.

Push for higher farm plastic recycling targets

Farmers use more than 10,000 tonnes of plastic bale wrap annually.

Billions sitting idle: Should banks be more proactive to help us earn interest?

A closer look at which banks prompt customers to get more bang for this buck.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX pleads with Trump for tariff exemptions

Securing a waiver would reduce the targeted tariff from 25% to 0%.

Property Insider: Spooked by agency closures; developer retrenching; residents begin Amaia shift

People are alarmed by the JLL closures, asking what that says about the successful agency.

Can the Govt force supermarket duopoly de-merger? Competition lawyer explains

Finance Minister Nicola Willis fired warning shots yesterday at Foodstuffs and Woolworths.

Signs of optimism as number of Kiwis behind on payments falls

Mortgage arrears also appeared to stabilise over the month.

Market close: Good news trumps bad news for Auckland airport

Airport's share prices rises as its weighting on S&P index increases.

RBNZ to review controversial bank rules, championed by Adrian Orr

Decision comes as banks lobby for loosening of rules.

Contact-Manawa takeover decision delayed

If the deal proceeds, it would make Contact the second-largest generator in New Zealand.

Tech Insider: Microsoft pulls Windows 10 support unless you pay $50 or upgrade - experts on your level of risk if you’re stranded, promising news for Ubco customers, Being AI finally finds directors

PLUS: Being AI finally finds three independent directors - and they're big names.

Reasons to be positive about red meat's future

OPINION: Is there a food equivalent of the Lord of the Rings?

Not so clever: Fletcher Building’s prefab house-building factory to shut

The $15m factory, which has 35 workers, will close by June 30.

Auckland Airport trims airline charges after ComCom found its forecast revenue was ‘excessive’

The watchdog releases its findings after an airport pricing probe.

Billionaire Graeme Hart lends to twice-bankrupted builder

The owner of the failed developer Buildform is a Hart family friend.

Why a Canadian gold mining company wants to invest $1b in Waihī

Is its investment dependent on fast-track approval?

Lion New Zealand's new solar array at "The Pride"

Lion New Zealand has installed 2,424 panels covering an area of around 5,400m2 at its vast production and bottling plant, named The Pride.