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📢 After almost nine months of dithering/careful contemplation, the Government quietly shelved proposed measures to possibly boost KiwiSaver investments in private...

KiwiSaver in private and public: Why side-pockets are out

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📢 The specialist tribunal created to deal with the leaky homes crisis is preparing to close — not because the problem has gone away, but because the law no...

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Leaky buildings tribunal to wind up, the sagas roll on

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📢 Westpac New Zealand is already looking for its full-year 2026 performance to improve upon the just-finished same period this year, helped along by the tailwinds...

Westpac NZ eyes improved full-year 2026 profit on GDP gains

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📢 Insurers are changing tack on new housing developments, and want their views heard at the front end of the planning stage.Insurance Council of New Zealand chief...

Insurers seek more clout in planning decisions

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 2h

📢 Less than 10% of the nearly $366m in loans issued through the Government’s $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund have been repaid, seven years after the regio...

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Less than 10% of Provincial Growth Fund loans repaid as long timelines stretch out

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📢 The New Zealand sharemarket edged toward record territory, helped by growing expectations that the economy is turning and 2026 could bring better times.After a...

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NZ stocks ride wave of 2026 optimism

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15h

📢 Genesis Energy has received fast-track approval to continue operating and maintaining the Tekapo hydro power scheme.It lodged the fast-track application in Apri...

Genesis gets fast-track greenlight for Tekapo power scheme

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 17h

📢 Would-be Central Otago gold miner Santana Minerals has lodged 9,400 pages of supporting material for its fast-track consent application, with a view to a decisi...

Santana lodges mammoth fast-track application

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 18h

📢 Westpac NZ has upped its full-year bottom line 13% thanks to a reversal in impairments as well as gains in total deposits and net loans, accompanied by a cautio...

Westpac NZ takes aim at Google and Meta’s efforts to fight financial crime

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 18h

📢 The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s latest round of bank stress testing added a new scenario to explore what would happen if a major strategic project, such...

RBNZ stress test shows banks resilient to IT failure and global shocks

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 19h

📢 ASB has agreed to extend its lease at Auckland’s North Wharf, with the total lifetime value, including future renewals and associated costs, estimated by...

ASB extends North Wharf HQ lease, lifting total value to $566m

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 20h

📢 Westpac New Zealand posted an improved full-year net profit of $1.2 billion, up 13% from $1.06b a year earlier, in part thanks to a favourable swing in impairme...

Baker's dozen: Westpac NZ hikes FY profit by 13%

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 21h

📢 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies agreed to boost oil production next month but signaled they would soon pause output increas...

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OPEC and allies agree to boost oil production, then pause

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 NZME director Jim Grenon has acquired another one million NZME shares, according to a new NZX notice, and is moving closer to becoming the company&rsq...

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Jim Grenon acquires more NZME shares

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📢 Z Energy has settled a High Court case brought by Consumer NZ, the Environmental Law Initiative and Lawyers for Climate Action NZ over claims its "Moving w...

Z Energy settles 'greenwashing' case without admitting liability

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 The New Zealand Green Investment Fund recorded a $116.4 million deficit in the 2024/25 financial year, driven largely by a $113.3m impairment on its SolarZero a...

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NZ Green Investment Fund unravels after SolarZero collapse

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Economists are expecting a slight rise in unemployment to 5.3% and a soft labour showing signs of stabilising when the latest statistics are released on Wednesd...

Unemployment expected to edge up to 5.3% in 3Q as labour market steadies

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📢 Perhaps one of the most notable things about Labour’s capital-gains proposal is that it doesn’t target all capital gains – or even most of the...

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The politics of whose capital gains get taxed

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📢 Simplicity KiwiSaver is going shopping armed with a plan to plug three gaps: the opportunity for investors between bond rates and equity returns; the chasm betw...

‘A pure NZ Inc play’: Simplicity’s InfraKiwi eyes power lines, ports, better returns than bonds

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📢 There are early signs the economy is turning a corner – but any optimism is still laced with caution.Economists are still expecting the central bank...

Freightways, SkyCity, Port of Tauranga see green shoots

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📢 The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has referred 22 accountants and eight lawyers to their professional bodies after an investigation into the misuse of eligi...

FMA pings accountants, lawyers for misuse of investor certificates

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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 2d

📢 Spectre is of course Rolls-Royce's first-ever pure-electric car. Black Badge is a new kind of sub-brand aimed at younger, more adventurous buyers (intr...

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Spectre: Infinity at your fingertips

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📢 By Mark Maremont and Paul OverbergIt’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it. In 30 states, it often requires only a claim...

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Six words every killer should know: 'I feared for my life, officer'

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📢 By Sara Kehaulani GooTwo decades ago, Noah Keola Ryan took a job as a hiking tour guide with a big company on Oahu, only to find out it was a sham.The company t...

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Can tourism be respectful? Native Hawaiians have a plan

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📢 From a periscope camera that popped up on its original flagship Find X to an extravagant Lamborghini-themed phone, and its lightning-fast SuperVOOC charging, it...

Oppo Find X9 Pro first look: The moment Oppo grows up

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