Australia leads a global rise in services PMIs; China improves; Trudeau resigns; German inflation rises; eyes on China ...

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 ...

Building up interest.co.nz’s technology coverage was very rewarding in 2024, but there was a massive elephant in the room. That’s artificial intelligence or AI of course. The plan was always to cover ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST 10yr at 4.59%; gold down and oil up; NZ$1 = 56.1 USc; TWI = 66.9 4th Jan 25, 8 ...

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

In April 2024, a spokesperson for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte suggested that the Philippines and China had entered into an undisclosed “gentleman’s agreement” between 2016 and 2022.

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 ...