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ELE group collapse: Volunteers race to help hundreds of laid-off workers

Woolworths provided $25,000 of food vouchers for the laid-off workers.

Sasha Borissenko: Santa’s 2023 naughty list of lawyers

OPINION: Conflicts of interest, inflated fees and sexual harassment were in the spotlight.

Liam Dann: Everything that will definitely happen in 2024 revealed

Will your mortgage rates fall? Will a robot take your job? Will you finally go Keto?

Engineered stone firm sent WorkSafe notices; rejects landlord’s claim of unsafe practices

Engineered or artificial stone will soon be banned in Australia.

ELE collapse: Filipino community stunned after mass layoffs days before Christmas

Numerous offers of help have been made to laid off staff.

Wall Street slams the brakes for a rare slowdown after record-setting rally

S&P 500 had its worst loss since beginning a monster-sized run shortly before Halloween.

Jenée Tibshraeny: Govt faces tough trade-offs to improve books

The work starts now for Finance Minister Nicola Willis.

RBNZ digesting data before softening tough talk on inflation

Adrian Orr highlights differences between NZ and US, where there's talk of rate cuts.

Liam Dann: Never mind the technicalities, New Zealand is in recession

OPINION: If there's an upside to grim GDP data, it may be we'll get through this sooner.

Red flag to a bull: NZ interest rates drop sharply after GDP falls

NZ wholesale interest rates have fallen sharply after US Fed news and NZ's GDP fall.

Fed holds rates steady, hints at cuts next year

The US Federal Reserve has kept its official rates unchanged.

Official cash rate cut remains unlikely, despite drop in inflation - economist

Inflation looks set to fall well below 5 per cent by the end of the year.

The food prices jumping the most in 2023

Cost of vegetables increases after adverse weather events, disease.

Treasury backs RBNZ focus on inflation

However, officials are worried about chopping and changing the Reserve Bank Act.

Biden goes into 2024 with economy getting stronger, but voters feel horrible

Turkeys, petrol and unrealistic Insta-glam expectations may influence the mood of voters.

Immigration boom: Annual net migration gain nears 130,000, smashing records

Citizens of India, the Philippines, China, Fiji and South Africa drove net migration gain.