Latest Economy Headlines
Why best-performing KiwiSaver funds might not be right for everyone
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:33:36 +1300 | RNZ
Aggressive funds can be more volatile, but should deliver more returns over time. More >>
'Group Think': These Were Our Covid-19 Mistakes, Economists Say
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:21:30 +1300 | RNZ
The government and the Reserve Bank came to a major realisation too late, experts say. More >>
Inflation On The Rise For New Zealand Households
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:44:54 +1300 | RNZ
Increases in prices are widespread, with about two-thirds of the goods in the food basket more expensive than a year ago. More >>
Valentines Day Is Here, So What Are The Benefits?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:43:23 +1300 | RNZ
Valentines Day can bump-up spending in the economy by as much as 10 percent, Hospitality NZ's CEO says. More >>
Proposals To Weaken Climate-Related Disclosures A Backwards Step
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:09:03 +1300 | Lawyers for Climate Action
Many of the proposals considered in the Discussion Document are blunt instruments and a knee-jerk response to some of the loudest critics of the CRD Regime. More >>
Enable Economic Growth By Building Rail Infrastructure & Allow More Rail Operators To Supplement KiwiRail’s Operation
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:51:05 +1300 | The Rail Advocacy Collective
Guy Wellwood, chair of TRAC, says, “The road transport industry has all of its costs evened out across the country with road vehicles paying the same across the motu. Why should rail then have to charge a premium for a particular area? That doesn’t ...More >>
Foodstuffs Co-ops Warn Of Tariff Impacts, As Global Demand For Three Key Commodities Leads Rise In Food Price Inflation
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:20:06 +1300 | Foodstuffs Limited
The Foodstuffs co-ops say an increase in the rate of food price inflation in January was led by ongoing spikes in key global commodities, with the effects of the US’s new tariffs yet to be seen.More >>
Canterbury Mayoral Forum Meet With Hon James Meager To Advocate For Canterbury And The South Island
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:14:21 +1300 | Canterbury Mayoral Forum
The Forum heard about Minister Meager’s plans for his role and briefed him on opportunities where Canterbury and the South Island can contribute to the Government’s economic growth agenda, while also highlighting areas where more work is still required to ...More >>
Reserve Closure In Place For Mount Iron
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:39:39 +1300 | Queenstown Lakes District Council
The closure follows fire indices reaching levels which trigger a closure, as outlined in QLDC’s Wildfire Reserve Closure Plan and brought on by an extended spell of hot and dry weather and high temperatures forecast for the next three days.More >>
“Poor Decision-making Making Us Poorer” - Kiwis $12,700 Worse Off Than Treasury Predictions
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:37:31 +1300 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The reality is we’re getting poorer. The government this year is leaning heavy on chasing economic growth, which is absolutely the right thing to do.” More >>
Job Losses From Kinleith Mill Closure Devastating
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:04:41 +1300 | Green Party
Kinleith Mill Closure doesn’t just affect 230 families, this will devastate the local economy and lead to local businesses closing down and subsequent job losses within the community.More >>
First Timers Boost Garden Festival, Economy
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:59:01 +1300 | Taranaki Garden Festival
Festival Manager Jessica Parker says the festival’s impact extends beyond its garden gates, boosting Taranaki’s economy significantly. The report shows 94% of attendees from outside the region were first-timers to the event, which ran from November 1More >>
Kinleith Mill To Close Paper Production
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:46:55 +1300 | E Tu
The closure will result in the loss of at least 230 jobs, with significant downstream impacts on the wider local community. More >>
Food Prices Increase 1.9 Percent In January
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:36:24 +1300 | Stats NZ
About 65 percent of items priced in the food basket were more expensive in January 2025, compared with an average of 54 percent per month in 2024. More >>
Māori Tourism Driving Economic Growth
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:23:29 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Released today at Te Pā Tū, the tourism business of Tauhara North No. 2 Trust near Rotorua, the Value of Māori Tourism report shows Māori tourism businesses contributed $1.2 billion in 2023, up from $975 million in 2018.More >>
Paper Mill Closure Adds To Growing Job Losses
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:16:56 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
“This is not good enough. Winston Peters promised that he would be an ‘advocate on your behalf’ and that ‘Kinleith Mill is the lifeblood of the Waikato’, yet here we are with another large employer closing its doors.More >>
Speech By Secretary To The Treasury Iain Rennie, 'Bending Two Curves: NZ's Intertwined Economic And Fiscal Challenges'
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:47:41 +1300 | The Treasury
The crux of my message today is that New Zealand needs to bend two curves. One is the long-term economic growth trajectory, which needs to bend upwards to expand our productive capacity and national real incomes. The second is our net public debt ...More >>
Prominent Economists Call For Superannuation Overhaul
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:38:32 +1300 | RNZ
'We spend more on pensions than we do on education.' More >>
50 And Not Done. The RBNZ Has More Work To Do. More Cuts Are Required
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:49:04 +1300 | Kiwi Economics
We think 2025 will be the year the RBNZ dips a little lower. A bit like a conga line of policymakers bending backwards under a Limbo bar. We hope they get under the 3% notch.More >>
Forest Biomass: Seeds Of Commercial Success Are Sprouting
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:36:01 +1300 | Innovatek
New Zealand's circular bioeconomy is a NZ $30 billion economic opportunity that will provide a mosaic of activity for regional New Zealand to thrive in, through emerging bio-based manufacturing, and the creation of new high-value products from what we ...More >>