Benchmark bond yields are in the middle of significant change in many countries, NZ included. While it is hard to know where ...

*Brian Easton, an independent scholar, is an economist, social statistician, public policy analyst and historian. He was the ...

Eyes on inflation's track; US jobs rose more than expected; American fear upcoming inflation; China struggles to contain ...

Expectations are being built for big home loan rate cuts leading up to the February OCR review and beyond. But there is more ...

US jobs market stronger than expected; US consumers fear impending inflation; financial markets fear rate cut delays; ...

A bond bubble is developing in Chinese financial markets and regulators are scrambling to contain it and defuse the ...

New Zealand’s current account deficit, now running at $27 bln per annum, is increasingly dominated by interest on historical ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely ...

China still battling deflation, moves to defend the yuan; Japanese wages rise; India growth slows; Aussie retail rises; ...

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

Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

For the first time in more than a decade a new registered non-bank financial institution is about to launch, Welcome ...