BNZ chief economist Mike Jones says going short has 'tended to pay off' but is 'compelled to offer a few competing viewpoints ...

Although flexibility by banks on interest rates for mortgages is reducing fast, BNZ has staked a claim for attention by ...

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Over the past 25 years, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has been adept at using crises to his advantage. He used the 1999 Moscow ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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