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Wellington's hospitality awards postponed due to tough times
14 Oct 2024The bite of tough times has been so hard, their annual awards celebrations have been pushed back to next year.
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New loyalty programme coming to multiple large national retailers
14 Oct 2024Consumers can use the card at a variety of in-store and online partners, across multiple product categories ranging from frequent purchases through to big ticket items.
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Supermarket boss points to GST in defence of prices
Grocery co-op Foodstuffs is defending grocery price differences, pointing out New Zealand charged GST on food, while most other countries did not.
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Median house price falls, more homes on the market
15 Oct 2024Houses are also taking longer to sell.
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Investor confidence falls but Sharesies deposits twice as high as withdrawals
15 Oct 2024Investors are buying into funds to deal with market uncertainty.
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Air NZ says by 'nearly every overseas port' will require sustainable fuel - but not NZ
14 Oct 2024The government not joining the international trend to require airlines to replace some fossil fuel with sustainable fuel contributed to the carrier ditching its 2030 climate target, Air NZ says.
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Growing fears summer heat pump use could cause power woes
14 Oct 2024Energy researchers fear the country will face an electricity shortage next winter if people don't stop using heat pumps in summer. Audio
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What 'Jack and Jill' can teach us about capital gains taxes
30 Sep 2024Opinion - Superficially, it seems fair to tax income from all sources. Yet it could be anything but, Richard Meade writes.
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One NZ bans customer for life after attack on staff
14 Oct 2024"It's not a decision that we take lightly," chief executive Jason Paris says. Audio
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Winston Peters' $100 billion fund must be 'depoliticised' - major KiwiSaver provider
14 Oct 2024But the proposed infrastructure fund is getting the thumbs up from Simplicity managing director Sam Stubbs.
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Māori 'too often' under-served by financial system - Orr
14 Oct 2024Private and public sectors must work together to improve Māori access to finance, according to the head of the Reserve Bank.
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Peters' $100 billion 'future fund': Where will the money come from?
Winston Peters says his party's proposed $100 billion 'future fund' may involve cutting taxes for offshore investors - but not local firms. Audio
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The global plague of missing office cutlery
14 Oct 2024Forks going missing in office kitchens seems to be a problem for many across the world, with chopsticks even going missing in Hong Kong. Audio
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Migration contributes to more rental houses than tenants in Auckland
14 Oct 2024Some Auckland property owners are considering renting out their homes when they move overseas and it's contributing to the slowdown of the rental market.
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NZ banks see parts of their credit score improve
14 Oct 2024The change comes in line with an easing in household sector financial risks.
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Glitches in BNZ online banking for second time this weekend
13 Oct 2024BNZ says its online banking service is back online after an outage on Sunday morning.
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Govt to reform anti-money laundering laws
13 Oct 2024The current rules hurt small businesses that can't afford dedicated compliance teams, associate justice minister says.
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How does secondary tax work?
12 Oct 2024RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your questions.
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Auckland Chinese restaurant offers to cook BYO fish to survive cost-of-living crisis
Auckland Restaurant Zhu Kitchen is offering to cook customers' own raw fish for a fee of $30.
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'War' as banks compete for lowest home loan rates
'Fingers crossed it's a really exciting war and people are going to benefit from it,' says a mortgage broker.
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Mill closure shuts door on three generations of family history
12 Oct 2024For 21 years, Aaron McCann and his father worked together at the mill. For the past year, his son James has been there too.
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Seabed miner retracts claim it will earn $1 billion a year
11 Oct 2024It comes after the plan was included in the list of projects up for Fast Track Bill approval.
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Inaugural summit harnesses ethnic business potential
12 Oct 2024Organised by the Ministry for Ethnic Communities, the Ethnic Xchange Symposium aims to boos t innovation, trade and investment.
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One NZ to start testing Musk's Starlink mobile network
11 Oct 2024The telco is partnering with the US satellite network owned by Elon Musk to improve mobile coverage for customers.
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