Rural broadband yet to deliver
Rural communities are yet to see most of the benefits from a $500 million scheme to boost internet coverage and speeds.
Rural communities are yet to see most of the benefits from a $500 million scheme to boost internet coverage and speeds.
If the economy ended 2012 with a reasonable head of steam up, it maintained it over the first three months of this year.
Homeowners are increasingly holding on to their properties and some would-be buyers are getting fed up with Auckland's record prices, says Quotable Value.
A Government-commissioned report into the booming Chinese tourism market finds visa processes should be streamlined to encourage travel by "low risk" high-spending visitors.
Housing valuations are the highest in seven years, prompting a slowdown in the market as some buyers hold off until prices become more affordable.
The trade-weighted index of the New Zealand dollar rose above 78 for the first time since it was floated in 1985.
Kiwibank has today reduced its one-year home loan rate by 26 basis points and withdrawn a six-month special promotion.
Alesco, whose tax-avoidance battle with Inland Revenue is seen as a test case for disputes involving more than $300 million, is trying to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The New Zealand government had a smaller operating deficit than expected in the first eight months of the financial year as it took in more income tax than it had forecast.
The Productivity Commission has begun an inquiry, at the Government's behest, into how productivity in the services sector might be improved.
More New Zealanders are feeling comfortable about increasing the limit on their credit card limits now than this time last year, according to survey findings.
Mainzeal liquidators were asked about the possibility of fraud at a creditors' meeting in Auckland today.
Prices of dairy products have surged to a record in Fonterra's latest global online auction as traders competed for a shrinking volume of drought-affected milk powder.
Prospects of keeping the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter open in the long-term are grim, with Meridian Energy saying it is still in the dark.
Rio Tinto isn't going to get a deal out of the Government and is likely to shut down the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter potentially at the cost of thousands of jobs over the next five years.
Led by dairy products, prices for export commodities surged last month - and this time the rise in world prices was not eaten up by a higher exchange rate.
Geo-politically, socially, environmentally, economically, financially and spiritually, the world and state of human affairs is in a state of unparalleled flux and change.
Nostalgia channel Jones! starts soon in a move by Sky Television to discourage subscribers from opting out of the basic package.