Bill English says the Government is "considering formalising" proposals to restrict bank lending and other "tools" to control credit growth.

The economy will grow faster this year and next year than we have seen since the recession but the recovery remains brittle, the Institute of Economic Research says.

A Parliamentary committee has recommended a starting wage for youth be passed into law.

For the first time, the BNZ-REINZ Residential Market Survey this month sought 572 real estate agents' views about overseas buyers.

I'm starting to feel guilty about this long decadent Auckland summer. It could just be my grandmother's Presbyterian streak kicking it.

There are fears that hundreds of jobs are on the line as union bosses go into urgent meetings with several big businesses battling to survive.

Why are only three per cent of Wall Street's top executives women? Surely there are more female graduates than that coming out of university and wanting a piece of it.

If it ever occurred, writes Andrew King, any existing home owner who previously had less than 70 per cent equity in their home would probably lose it to a mortgagee sale.

Wall St extended losses for a second day amid concern the Federal Reserve's stimulus for the US economy might end sooner than expected.

Towns in New Zealand's regional areas should be made more enticing to slow the mammoth population growth expected in Auckland in the next decade, a sociologist says.

More than half of Auckland's residential land is to be rezoned for apartments and intensification to squeeze in a million extra people by 2040.

The G20 group of leading industrial and developing countries was talking tough at the weekend about getting multinational corporations to pay more tax.

The New Zealand government had a smaller than expected first-half operating deficit after Treaty of Waitangi settlement costs didn't eventuate in the period.

As more people upgrade to smartphones there are growing fears that constant availability for work will destroy work-life balance.

Precarious work creates a group of people who are insecure in all senses - financial, self and social, writes Susan Guthrie and Gareth Morgan.

Food prices are not becoming more expensive as the increase in cost tracks the rate of inflation, an economist says.

Port of Tauranga's mixed ownership structure is considered a significant influence on its established position as New Zealand's best-performing port.

The high kiwi dollar means it's a great time to be an importer or to go on holiday.

Shops and bars will open in downtown Christchurch next month for the first time since the February 22 earthquake two years ago.

A teacher at one of New Zealand's most prestigious private boarding schools was sacked after a disagreement over grades descended into an drawn-out dispute.