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Personal Finance / News

3 in 5 lower income households spend at least 40% of money on housing

26th Feb 26, 11:32am

Increasing proportion of households consider their income is ‘not enough’ or only ‘just enough’ to meet everyday needs, according to Statistics NZ

Banking / News

Kiwibank interim profit up 12%, says its borrowers repaying home loans faster than overall market

[updated]

26th Feb 26, 9:31am

by Gareth Vaughan

Kiwibank 'well positioned' CEO says, after half-year profit rise despite lower net interest margin

Personal Finance / Analysis

Personal Finance / Analysis

BNZ cuts some fixed home loan rates

26th Feb 26, 9:58am

by David Chaston

Reductions to some fixed home loan rates may extend the move by borrowers to fix for longer given swirling uncertainties in the short term

Banking / News

Banking / News

Heartland Group bounces back strongly

26th Feb 26, 9:22am

by David Hargreaves

The reverse mortgage specialist says its on-track to meet its profit target of at least $85 million for the current financial year

Business / News

Business / News

Air New Zealand loses $40m in first half of year and forecasts further loss in second half

26th Feb 26, 10:00am

by David Hargreaves

Our national airline says the half year loss was largely driven by global engine maintenance delays, slower than expected recovery in domestic demand, increasing aviation system costs and a weaker New Zealand currency

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Property / News

Property / News

Housing market started the year with 'a fizzle', ANZ NZ economists say

26th Feb 26, 10:46am

by Greg Ninness

ANZ NZ economists see little impetus for house prices to rise this year

Economy / News

Breakfast briefing: A new global debt cycle underway

26th Feb 26, 7:19am

by David Chaston

Gigantic surge in global debt; US data tame; Taiwanese jobless low, EU inflation low; China warns US over new tariffs; Australian inflation stays high; UST 10yr at 4.04%; gold up, oil softish again; NZ$1 = 59.9 USc; TWI-5 = 63.3

Personal Finance / News

Personal Finance / News

Banks slam 'extreme' and 'back to the future' RBNZ cash services proposal

26th Feb 26, 7:30am

by David Hargreaves

Bank lobby group says RBNZ cash plans will increase the cost of banking for all New Zealanders

Technology / Opinion

Why Chinese humanoid robots doing kung fu is a prime-time industrial signal

25th Feb 26, 5:02pm

by Guest

China’s dancing robots are a wake-up call for Australia on policy and productivity, Marina Yue Zhang says

Property / Analysis

A key leading economic indicator is not positive yet

25th Feb 26, 1:10pm

David Chaston

Insurance / News

UK Government sanctions NZ-based insurer Maritime Mutual

[updated]

25th Feb 26, 12:09pm

Mandy Te

Personal Finance / News

The Reserve Bank wants you to be able to get cash - and it has a plan

25th Feb 26, 11:00am

David Hargreaves

Labour's Carmel Sepuloni and Chris Hipkins attend the release of a report from the People’s Select Committee.

Public Policy / News

Labour pledges pay equity reversal but withholds specifics, for now

24th Feb 26, 4:36pm

Anna Whyte

Business / News

Podcast: 'Flabbergasted that AI hasn't become a political talking point'

24th Feb 26, 10:30am

Gareth Vaughan

Public Policy / Analysis

Te wiki o te tāke: The key themes for 2026 are clear

24th Feb 26, 11:01am

Terry Baucher

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Westpac actions u-turn on longer mortgage rates ahead of rivals

[updated]

20th Feb 26, 4:31pm

David Chaston

As financial markets reset after a more dovish than anticipated Reserve Bank monetary policy review, Westpac is cutting three longer term home loan rates

Economy / News

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RBNZ’s Paul Conway on why he believes inflation will drop to 2%

23rd Feb 26, 9:33am

Mandy Te

RBNZ chief economist Paul Conway says it’s not optimism to think inflation will fall to 2%, it’s New Zealand’s economic fundamentals

Property / Analysis

Substantial improvement in housing affordability for first home buyers as prices slide

22nd Feb 26, 6:00am

Greg Ninness

Housing is now the most affordable it has been for first home buyers in more than five years as prices drop at the bottom of the market

Public Policy / News

How the Infrastructure Commission crunched the Auckland Harbour crossing numbers

20th Feb 26, 1:28pm

Anna Whyte

Inside the $9 toll: How the Infrastructure Commission came to its Auckland harbour crossing figure

Personal Finance / News

Kiwibank raises its floating mortgage rate

23rd Feb 26, 10:31am

David Chaston

The out-of-cycle hike of its floating home loan rates by Kiwibank comes in response to two pressures; its low earnings, and that the Co-op Bank has taken its mantle for this type of mortgage rate

Property / News

More properties on offer but sales rate slumps at the latest auctions

21st Feb 26, 6:00am

Greg Ninness

The sales rate slumped back to mid-winter levels at the latest property auctions

Currencies / Opinion

The risk is that the RBNZ have misread NZ inflation

23rd Feb 26, 8:44am

Roger J Kerr

Roger J Kerr says there have to be major question marks over expected further decreases in both non-tradable inflation and tradable inflation this year