Speech – ANZ Bank

Price Waterhouse is a great partner of ANZs around the world as their hosting of todays lunch shows. I would like to also congratulate John Weiss on founding the Trans-Tasman Business Circle just over 20 years ago. Read more »

Press Release – Hotels.com

Australia is now more affordable for New Zealanders the Gold Coast and Cairns are among the locations with the biggest price decreases in accommodation for Kiwis worldwide Japan gave Kiwi travellers the most dramatic drop in hotel pricing … Read more »

Press Release – KPMG

New Zealands banking sector had a solid 2013, with the slow economic recovery picking up the pace and beginning to flow through into results, KPMGs latest Financial Institutions Performance Survey shows. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

March 5 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand building activity slowed in the final three months of 2013 as non-residential work dropped for a second quarter, offsetting a pick-up in house building. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

NZ dollar gains as risk appetite recovers after Putin allays fears of imminent military action Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Dairy product prices record biggest drop since June 2013, paced by whole, skim milk powder Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is calling for a log price to be set to end the regional devastation that is occurring as sawmills close. Read more »

Press Release – Harcourts

Provisional data from New Zealands largest real estate group Harcourts for the month of February shows there is continued pressure on the housing market in Auckland and Northland, with the average sales price sitting at $644,613 up 13% on the … Read more »

Press Release – Green Party

Business New Zealand has finally admitted that the Green Partys plan for cheaper power for families and businesses will be good for the economy, but they need to stop downplaying NZ Powers benefits, Green Party energy spokesperson Gareth Hughes … Read more »

Press Release – Footsteps

The Salvation Armys State of the Nation report , released in the past week, proves that when it comes to our children, we are more interested in defining vulnerability than addressing it. Some will point to the uptick in early childhood education (ECE), … Read more »

Press Release – Child Poverty Action Group

Child Poverty Action Group says new figures from Statistics New Zealand and Treasury show the impact of the global financial crisis has been much more severe for poor children than previously believed. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

NZ business confidence rises to highest level in almost 20 years; New Zealand dollar jumps Read more »

Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has today released the Quarterly Labour Market Report for the February quarter. This report combines the Ministrys labour market monitoring programme with the latest developments in the labour market … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 28 (BusinessDesk) The New Zealand dollar was the best performing major currency overnight, nudging above 83.90 US cents, as a raft of positive economic news cemented the likelihood of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates next month. Read more »

Press Release – ASB Bank

The ASB Cantometer index rose to a new high of 1.3 in February, up from 1.1 in January, buoyed by a range of activity indicators that continue to strengthen. Read more »

Press Release – NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association

The recent report New Zealand Manufacturing Sector: Its Dynamics and Competitiveness completed by Castalia has some good analysis and reiterates the importance of manufacturing to the New Zealand economy, say the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters … Read more »

Press Release – Green Party

The Government is continuing to fail our kids who are in poverty by not even measuring the size of the problem correctly, the Green Party said today. The Government has today admitted that it got its calculations wrong when measuring child poverty and … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 27 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealands inbound net migration rose to a 10-year high in January as fewer people quit the country to cross the Tasman and the number of new migrants continued to gain. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 27 (BusinessDesk) The New Zealand dollar pared its decline after Fonterra Cooperative Group raises its forecast payout for dairy farmers to a record. Read more »

Press Release – Child Poverty Action Group

Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the rise in the minimum wage but says sensible and fair adjustments to family income assistance are also needed. Read more »