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Ahead of the United States presidential inauguration, the Trumps decided to launch so-called memecoins. They’re eponymous, ...

Monthly retail spending figures ended the year on a stronger footing after much weakness in spending throughout 2024 ...

Jim O’Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of the ...

The NZ government is promising to double exports (again) – but as history shows, this is easier said than done, Eldrede ...

Roger J Kerr says the long USD speculative positioning on the Trump Trades has become extremely crowded and has lasted for ...

Eyes on NZ CPI, Trump2 effect; China says it hit GDP target; IMF raises growth estimates; US debt limit in focus again; Fed ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has begun the political year with a ministerial reshuffle aimed at addressing perceived weaknesses linked to the National Party's declining poll numbers. Finance ...

The shift to a more services-based economy increases economy-wide depreciation rates, and so the need to invest. Higher average interest rates – and economy-wide profit shares – are among the likely ...

I think this is what we could call 'starting the year with a bang'. We are going straight into 2025 with the biggie - inflation. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation figures for the December ...

Westpac says the drivers for higher gold prices are still in place, even though traditional analysis suggests it may have ...