New Zealand's economy kicked off 2011 with a bang, growing at twice the forecast pace and the fastest since December 2009 as a resurgent manufacturing sector drove the nation's revival in the face of Canterbury's earthquakes.

There's nothing to suggest that under the new regulatory regime that ASB, Versalko's employer, would've automatically picked up on his fraud.

New Zealand's economy probably grew at the fastest pace in four quarters in the first three months of 2011, say economists.

Weak credit demand could curtail earnings growth for the big New Zealand banks, says credit rating agency Standard and Poor's.

Glass maker Metro GlassTech is the latest heavily indebted overseas private equity owned business to get into strife with its bankers, says one report.

The four big Australian-owned banks - ANZ National, ASB, Bank of New Zealand and Westpac - are creaming it in New Zealand.

The banks are desperate to lend...

More than half of New Zealand's $168.2b of mortgages are now on floating rates, says the Reserve Bank.

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New housing statistics have identified increasing numbers of Auckland suburbs that are out of reach for first-time buyers, with childless big-earners the most likely to be able to buy now.