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Reserve Bank's new cartoon - How money works
The Reserve Bank has released an animated educational video explaining the functions of money in New Zealand.
Grey Lynn hovel sells for $1.075m
A potential health hazard that comes complete with rotting floorboards and nicotine-caked walls sold for $1.075 million this afternoon.
Dollar drop boosts tourism + video
Tourism Holdings chief executive Grant Webster says the falling New Zealand dollar will boost the visitor sector but is unlikely to encourage a big surge in numbers this high season.
Mark Lister: Nervous types, buckle up
Sharper day-to-day movements will be unnerving for some investors.
Bob Jones: Poseurs take us all for suckers
In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.
Peter Lyons: When rock stars run out of puff
NZ has a "rock star economy" and surveys reveal high levels of business confidence, but what could make the economy run out of puff? Peter Lyons looks at the issue.
Next step hard for home buyers
First-home buyers looking to make the next step up the ladder could struggle - despite making huge gains in value on their property.
Sri Lanka suspends sale of Fonterra milk powder
Fonterra has confirmed Sri Lankan officials have suspended the sale of some Anchor milk powder, amid concerns it has made children sick.
Liam Dann: Falling kiwi to attract foreign buyers
Liam Dann writes: Get ready for an influx of bargain-hunting foreign investors, because as the dollar drops, NZ assets are effectively going on special.
Big money, but also peanuts
ANZ's chief executive David Hisco's $4.1 million pay packet got a few Kiwis hot under the collar this week. But how 'bout we compare our bosses with the US?
Dollar catches breath after yesterday's slump
The NZ dollar edged up following its dramatic slump yesterday after the Reserve Bank confirmed speculation it intervened in the currency market.
Reserve Bank sells $521m to lower dollar
The New Zealand dollar dropped against the greenback yesterday afternoon after the Reserve Bank released data which confirmed that it had put its money where its mouth was last month, selling $521 million in a bid to push the exchange rate lower.
Mark Lister: Weakness of kiwi could accelerate
70c, here we come? This could be it. The time when some weakness creeps into the NZ dollar, and it actually stays down.
Inside Auckland's $1 million hovel
It's a potential health hazard that comes complete with rotting floorboards, nicotine-caked walls and the worst bathroom the agent's ever seen: Auckland's $1m hovel.
US trading settles after skittish spell
US stocks took a breather after last week's records, ending a volatile few days in the red as some investors snapped up profits before the third quarter closes.
Liam Dann: How's the economy? You choose.
Liam Dann offers up five reasons for economic gloom and five reasons for cheer.
Tesco gets more than sums wrong
'Tesco is like a wounded animal: we never know what it is going to do next," is how one battered food supplier describes its relationship with the UK's biggest retailer.
Tougher benchmark rules
The British govt plans to criminalise the manipulation of more benchmarks to revive confidence in the integrity of London as a financial centre.
Two cases on watchdog's list
New Zealand's financial regulator is probing two possible cases of insider trading and market manipulation, after receiving 15 complaints about such behaviour in the past year.
Reserve Bank talking tough on exchange rate
The New Zealand dollar could fall significantly over the next six to nine months and the Reserve Bank would welcome that, says Governor Graeme Wheeler.
APN to rebrand as NZME.
APN, the company which owns the New Zealand Herald, is to relaunch as part of a new brand, NZME.
Zachary Karabell: The welcome return of subprime loans
Five years after the worst of the financial crisis, subprime loans are creeping back, this time primarily in the form of US auto loans.