New research funded by Natural Hazard Commission finds volcanic ashfall could impact hundreds of thousands of North Island ...

Roger J Kerr says what is important for the future NZ dollar direction is whether the US dollar continues to depreciate and ...

China holds rates, says youth jobless rate rises; Japan holds rates as CPI rises; India bank debt rises fast; eyes on RBA; ...

Global markets turn optimistic, helping commodities; Japan cautious even as inflation rises; India debt surges; China jobless ...

New Zealand has been experiencing a recession as severe as the Great Recession following the Global Financial Crisis, at least in terms of economic output. On Thursday, Statistics NZ reported gross ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon declined to say whether he thinks $500 million is sufficient capital for Kiwibank – but he thinks there are “regulatory things” the Government can do to make sure ...

Judith Collins, wearing her Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology hat, has launched the new Kitmap initiative. This is billed as "an online directory and database of scientific ...

Banks keep chipping away at their term deposit rate offers, a trend likely to continue for a while yet. We reveal the reasons ...

It has been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and fibres. It named the particles “microplastics”. The paper opened an entire ...

S&P says Aussie proposal to do away with banks' AT1 capital addresses systemic risks from the unique, big domestic retail investor base holding AT1 securities ...