Diesel costs declined 18.9% in May but that wasn't enough to offset other price rises in the building industry with some costs increasing by 25% according to QV CostBuilder

Statistics NZ has insights into trends in farmers’ employment, wellbeing, and income. Increasingly, farming is dominated by old men with more than half over 55 years with modest incomes

'You are storing up this cost for future generations': Simplicity chief economist Shamubeel Eaqub says Aotearoa is at a crunch point when it comes to insurance and managing risk

No Middle East resolution despite market hopes; US data mixed; EU retail soft; freight rates surge; amateur AI legal claims clog courts; UST 10yr at 4.47%; gold up and oil falls; NZ$1 = 58.8 USc; TWI-5 = 62.3,; bitcoin lower