Commodity prices show weakness; China extends support, promises more; US still worried about inflation; heat & bushfires ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely high risks. Australia is both an opportunity and a risk for New Zealand ...

Anyway, that’s where we’re headed in 2025, it seems: cheaper and more capable models, which more people can afford to use, ...

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration's plans to weaken the American central bank's independence ...

The global economy is very large. The New Zealand economy is very small. This is one way to view our relative place in the economic world ...

We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST ...

Without taxpayer subsidies, the new car market twisted while it shrank, but buyers gravitated to petrol hybrids rather than ...

With all mortgages looking like a commodity, little different between institutions, banks are finding it difficult to win new ...

US data good but short-term risks rise fast; China faces it own messy markets; global factories in better shape; Aussie house prices stop rising; UST 10yr at 4.57%; gold and oil rise; NZ$1 = 56 USc; ...