Business confidence has rebounded in ANZ's monthly survey, the first since the general election.

If the Reserve Bank leaves the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent today it will be the right call, the NZIER's shadow monetary policy board believes.

Pumpkin Patch auditor PwC says the former high-flying retailer may have difficulty continuing as a going concern if it is unable to comply with banking covenant agreements with its bank, the ANZ.

The taxpayer's bill for the South Canterbury Finance prosecution could be nearing $1.5 million and might balloon if acquitted defendants push for costs.

It is a sign that the times, they are a-changin' when leading central bankers, of all people, are publicly deploring prevailing levels of, and trends in, inequality.

Economists now expect the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates on hold until September next year after inflation in the September quarter proved even more benign than it had forecast.

BNZ chief executive Anthony Healy has thrown his weight behind efforts to clean up New Zealand's polluted waterways.

The Reserve Bank's introduction of limits to low-equity mortgage lending last year had "a dampening" impact on house price inflation, Graeme Wheeler said today.

The Financial Markets Authority is sounding the alarm over cold-callers touting questionable foreign investment schemes to New Zealand consumers.

A fund that lends money to women interest-free is in the unexpected position of not having enough borrowers.

An entire industry has grown around handing low-income earners a lifeline to the material rewards of middle-class life, but it comes at a hidden price.

The New Zealand dollar gained against the Japanese yen as improved US economic data bolstered sentiment on global growth.

The October curse once again struck Wall Street. Since the S&P 500 peaked at a record high on September 18, it has tumbled 6 per cent.

Do you think the money you have in a bank term deposit is Govt guaranteed? If so, you're wrong, but you're not alone, writes Bernard Hickey.

Justice Paul Heath's verdict in the South Canterbury Finance trial clearly represented a sharp rebuke for the Serious Fraud Office.