The Reserve Bank has stepped up the battle against inflation with an increase of half of a percentage point in the Official Cash Rate to 1.5 percent, with a warning that further rises are coming.

Trustpower shareholders are in for a windfall as it sells its retail arm, but the company is warning of some cash flow pressure ahead.

The country’s banking sector ended last year with record profits, but the outlook looks tougher.

Marlborough-based King Salmon has been placed in a trading halt ahead of the scheduled release of its full year result and a potential capital raising.

An overhaul of the Holidays Act has thrown up a new, curly problem that could cost employers.

The backers of a new wind energy project off the Taranaki coast believe the eyewatering costs of their technology will come down by the time work starts – that is if it goes ahead.

There won’t be a fight over electricity to power green hydrogen in Southland, a Fortescue Future Industries director says.

An Auckland bar that has continued to use vaccine passes has received a one star Facebook review from its own landlord.