Here’s what unemployment data means for your home loan
More official cash rate cuts could now be on the cards in a further bid to try and revive the economy, experts say.
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NZ grocery prices higher than OECD average, Commerce Commission says
This is despite grocery prices stabilising last year.
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Canterbury firm keeps craft wool processing in New Zealand
The country’s last operational woollen dye house and spinning mill has been saved from the scrap heap.
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Takapuna finds formula for higher retail, hospitality spending
Businesses on Auckland’s North Shore say they’re bucking the hard trading conditions faced by many.
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Pilots lose Employment Relations Authority battle with Jetstar
Jetstar doesn’t have to offer pilots an alternative day off if they are on call on a public holiday but do not have to work, the ERA says.
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Could Northland’s Marsden Point be NZ’s first ‘Special Economic Zone’?
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters have visited Northland to inspect a jet fuel storage project on the site of the old oil refinery.
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Businesses’ unpaid tax bill – ‘there’s potential for a lot of collateral damage’
There is still almost $48 million unpaid from 2018 – and $1.471 billion from the most recent year.
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Stronger conditions for farmers may be helping regional property markets
Stronger conditions for farmers may be helping regional property markets.
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Quarter of all tenant applications to Tenancy Tribunal relate to concerns about Healthy Homes
In its latest annual report, the Tenancy Tribunal said there were 29,309 applications made to it in 2024, up 14 percent compared to 2023 and up 43 percent compared to 2022.
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The people quietly preserving a place for cash
Kiwis’ cash use has come under scrutiny.
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