Despite the first Official Cash Rate increase in three years, ANZ NZ, ASB, BNZ and Kiwibank have left their mortgage serviceability test rates unchanged

Chris Trotter separates the Australian and New Zealand protest vote leaders, noting that Winston Peters simply doesn’t possess the repressed political rage of Pauline Hanson, or the ability to communicate it

Brian Easton says there is a strong case to be made that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the government agency that has contributed the most to New Zealand’s economic growth

Roger J Kerr says the prolonged period of NZ dollar weakness has given a major boost to our export sector with substantially higher export commodity prices. "We will now see NZD appreciation in its own right, returning all the currency cross-rates higher"