Latest from Markets with Madison

The grid-scale solar farm installing 1600 panels per day

Plus the big investors behind the private project.

Markets with Madison: Solar solution?

Large-scale solar farms are popping up around the country with developers like Lodestone Energy behind major investments. Do the market economics of grid-scale solar stack up?

Why the US 20% tariff figure is ‘garbage economics’

So where did the mysterious number come from?

Markets with Madison: Tariffs

The trade war has begun with US President Donald Trump rolling out reciprocal tariffs – but the calculations are being questioned.

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

Is its investment dependent on fast-track approval?

Markets with Madison: Meet Waihi mine’s owner

OceanaGold’s global president & CEO explains why it’s intent on mining underneath land that’s home to an endangered species, despite controversy and a high cost to get to it.

Markets with Madison: Snowflake co-founders

In this interview Snowflake’s co-founders Benoit Dageville & Thierry Cruanes explain why they quit Oracle to build a software company that hit the biggest IPO in US tech history.

Quitting Oracle to biggest software IPO ever

'This is an inflection point where there is complete uncertainty.'

Markets with Madison: UBS trading floor

Swiss investment bank UBS’ trading floor in Sydney turns over A$3 billion a day, making for a high pressure environment.

Markets with Madison: Cyber threats

Cybersecurity is a booming industry with attacks from private and state-sponsored hackers utilising AI. What are companies and governments doing to protect our information?

The making of Microsoft’s domestic data centre

How Kiwis got Satya Nadella on side.

Markets with Madison: Microsoft’s bet on NZ

US tech behemoth Microsoft is the first hyperscaler to open a data centre in New Zealand and has acquired more land to expand.

Markets with Madison: Downturn damage

Some of our largest companies are cutting costs to survive as investors shatter their stock. Equities analyst Aaron Ibbotson assesses the earnings season damage.

Recession rut: The major companies doing it tough

The downturn is worse than executives and analysts expected.

Waiting to fix in ’26 could cost mortgage borrowers more, analyst says

Rate relief is here! Or is it?

Markets with Madison: Rate relief

Rate relief has arrived, ending two years of economic arrest. But banks may not pass on the cuts - Sean Keane explains why. Video / Alyse Wright

We must pick a side in AI arms race, Kiwi entrepreneur says

Drones, rockets, aircraft and ships can all be made in NZ, but will they get support?

Markets with Madison: AI arms race

Companies are raising hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve AI supremacy. PrimerAI founder Sean Gourley says it’s not just a tech trend – it’s the only way to deter war.