Fee paying overseas students and the children of foreign workers attending NZ schools both showing strong growth

Another week, more geopolitical risk, and solid moves up for wholesale interest rates. The recent stability of fixed mortgage rates seems ready to give way to a new push higher, despite lackluster housing demand

United States confirms new 12.5% tariff on New Zealand imports for 'failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor'

The first crack in the dam appears with the Red Bank raising home loan and some term deposit rates in response to higher wholesale rate moves

New Zealand has a $2.5b building defect problem. Will self‑certification make it better or worse?

US data reveals limp gains and higher rates; Canada data dour; Singapore surprises; China awaits stimulus decisions; Indonesia takes a risky turn; UST 10yr at 4.65%; gold firms; oil falls sharply; NZ$1 = 57.7 USc; TWI-5 = 61.6

Bede Henderson says the terms of the Government's $60m deal to support Golden Bay Cement read like a Crown that's learned where closure costs land