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Former Auckland financial adviser accused of procuring $1.7m from clients for personal use

The defendant faces a maximum prison term of seven years.

Mortgages: How many borrowers have ‘fix regret’?

Mortgage brokers advise clients to hold off as long as possible before fixing rates.

The cost of cracking cancer: What the $1.6t race for a cure leaves behind

Financial Times: Pancreatic cancer is a killer, with few new treatments on horizon.

'Improper' Covid cash claim: Ministry takes hotel building contractor to court

Issue over nearly $250,000 in pandemic-era wage subsidies.

Opinion: Elon Musk is an unguided geopolitical missile

Financial Times: While Musk's influence is showing up, he still lacks ability to make law.

Financial stress eases for young Kiwis but rises for mortgage holders

Signs financial stress could be easing, but not for everyone.

Business failures surge as insolvencies hit eight-year quarterly high

'The scale of the increase has been significant', says BWA Insolvency's Bryan Williams.

Property Insider: Seascape adjudication decision awards $33m; Carrie Bradshaw index

Developer to pay builder China Construction New Zealand $33m.

NZ Rural Land resumes dividends after profit boost

Revaluations have boosted NZ Rural Land's first half profit.

JLL retirement village study: population up, companies adjust growth

Most older people do not live in such villages, even with 53,000 people there now.

How far have interest rates really fallen?

August has been the month of cuts. Here's how they've stacked up.

ANZ weighs ban on office-hours drinking after trader misbehaviour

Financial Times: Bank seeks to call time on drunk workers as part of culture review.

'Plague of our times': banks devoting more to scam fight

Australia's 'Big Four' banks are setting aside more resources to fight scams.

Liam Dann: The economy sucks – why is business confidence so high?

OPINION: Business optimism has surged, despite the recession and rising unemployment.

Wellington cafe suffers ‘worst sales day ever’ as job cuts bite

Cafe owners say crunch worse than during Covid and making a profit is 'near impossible'.

Energy crisis: What will it take to fix the system?

What this month's power price spike says about NZ's electricity sector.