The Reserve Bank will likely end a sequence of six consecutive cuts to the Official Cash Rate in the coming week - but we've probably not seen the end of the rate reductions yet

Until Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori understand that the battle for law and order is waged in every human heart, and that if it is lost there, then it will be lost everywhere, they will never be returned to, or reconciled with, power

Households are holding back spending as wage growth slows, prices keep climbing, and net wealth stalls

Ross Stitt celebrates the gains investors reaped from Australian listed shares. But these came despite a rocky twelve months. If 2025/26 repeats, investors will be happy to tolerate the intervening instability, he suggests