While property market activity has picked up through the first half of this year, house prices have not moved much.

Misleading specials are costing shoppers tens of millions of dollars a year, Consumer NZ says.

A major bank says it’s likely rates will continue to rise over the next few years.

Karl Dean says Fonterra, wholesalers and supermarkets are doing their best to keep prices down.

The loss of competition could cause an increase in price and delivery timeframes, the commission says.

The airline is part of a select group that has been given the opportunity to partner with the organisation behind ChatGPT, in a first of its kind collaboration in New Zealand.

ASB and ANZ have rejected an offer to settle a class action suit against them, for about $300 million.