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 ...

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

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

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 ...

2024 was a year of when interest rates turned lower, when 'normalisation' occurred in the world's largest economies.

Nouriel Roubini considers what the US president-elect's promised policy agenda will mean for growth, and inflation ...

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 ...

Early-season farmgate prices for sheepmeat have been higher than last spring and cattle prices remain strong. This coupled ...

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