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Market soars and economists upgrade outlook on move to level 1

Share markets soared and economists revised their forecasts as optimism took hold today.

What crisis? NZ stockmarket soars, now close to where it started the year

What crisis? Investors have decided to look through all the chaos of 2020

MSD asked to mind accuracy, quality assurance after redundancy pay error

It comes after people were wrongly denied the benefit based on redundancy payments.

Market Watch: Shares soar through political turmoil

Share investors continue to view the world's recovery more optimistically than most.

Comment: Existing policy 'can allow wealthy migrants to help with rebuild'

Government doesn't need to reinvent wheel on immigration, says consultant David Cooper.

Run-down Auckland house sells for $1.14m

House sold despite warnings house prices about to plunge due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Liam Dann: Why Australia will recover faster than NZ

Comparisons with our neighbours across the ditch are fun but not necessarily relevant.

Wage subsidies welcome but jobs needed

Editorial: More than 43,000 Kiwis made jobless since Covid 19 alert levels started.

Kiwis who lost jobs due to Covid-19 crisis to get $490 a week income relief payment

The newly jobless will get a temporary income support payment.

Job security slumps as new survey maps financial confidence

A new survey shows that Covid-19 delivered an unprecedented hit to financial resilience.

Brian Fallow: Wishful thinking won't save tourism jobs

COMMENT: Many people -- in NZ and overseas -- will be in no position to pay for a holiday.

'Greatest shock in living memory': Bay could lose 14,550 jobs

The report provides an overview of the anticipated economic impacts of Covid-19 on the Bay

Workers laid off as water restrictions follow Covid-19 shutdown

'Covid-19 hurt my business. Water restrictions killed my business.'

Looming recession tipped to boost polytechs

Polytech and wānanga domestic enrolments forecast to jump 33 per cent.

Local Focus: Kawerau safeguards economic future

'Kawerau Pathways' getting the young ones into work. Made with funding by NZ On Air

Liam Dann: We did it - now comes the shock of ordinary life

With lockdown and Budget behind us, the challenge of ordinary life looms large.