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

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

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We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out ...

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

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

US data mixed; China sees some factory expansion; USD strength hurts many currencies; ETFs have spectacular year; UST 10yr at ...