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Petrol smashes $3/litre barrier, could go higher

When fuel costs spike, lower income families cut down on food, a budgeter says.

Diana Clement: Why do we make silly financial decisions?

OPINION: Hormones, neurons and more are controlling our economic decisions.

'Lockdown project': NZ's richest man Graeme Hart starts on Auckland house-buying spree

What can we learn from his choice of properties, where and what he's buying?

'Don't be caught like we were' - parents snared in tax trap after helping daughter

'It never occurred to us we would be liable for tax' - father of family caught.

Lockdown hit: SkyCity's profit forecast to sink into loss

Ability to pay dividends restricted while waiver on debt provisions in place

Kiwi Wealth sale possibility being explored

Kiwi Wealth has about $9 billion in assets under management.

The Ex-Files: Jeremy Sutton on what happens when intermittent relationships break up

If the length of time apart was less than three months it can be excluded.

Companies dodge $400m tax by paying owners $9.4b earnings

Shareholders avoided as much as $400m in tax by getting $9.4 billion in dividends in 2021.

Mary Holm: Should this teenager get a credit card?

Sometimes a homemade gift can be as welcome as a big-budget present.

$18.7m cigarette smuggling case: Businesswoman jailed, millions in assets forfeited

More than 19 million smokes were unlawfully shipped from China over four years.

'Bank of mum and dad' caught by tax trap: National MP decries brightline catch

'It has hit many Kiwis who aren't speculators' - MP Andrew Bayly.

Jarden Brief: The companies watching credit law changes closely

Jarden's daily update on the latest market moves and shakes.

'Immediate effect': House prices, volumes fall in response to law change

First home buyer activity has been hit particularly hard.

Mary Holm: Mum's legacy that wasn't - a tough investment lesson from 1980

OPINION: A well-intentioned parent's 42-year investment strategy doesn't pay off.

The Kiwi who gave up her corporate job for cryptocurrency

The founder of Easy Crypto talks about its fast growth.

Chinese billionaire to give away fortune

He's one of the richest people on earth but Changpeng Zhao plans to give his fortune away.