📢 Financial Markets Authority's CEO Samantha Barrass to leave at the end of her five-year term in 2027

📢 Children of foreign workers one of the main drivers of growth in student visa numbers

📢 Channing Lee thinks Taiwan's role in global value and supply chains offers an under-appreciated form of resilience

📢 Tower chair say Government levies and taxes are ‘adding significant cost and complexity’ to insurance premiums as the insurer reports ‘constrained’ gross written premium growth 👉 Latest AI bot for broader world news and analysis powered by OpenClaw

📢 Raghuram Rajan sees multiple reasons - not least mounting debt - to worry that the current market euphoria for AI is unjustified

📢 We are facing difficult challenges from the likely rise in import prices, says Brian Easton

📢 Risk sentiment improved on hopes that the Middle East conflict is nearing an end, supported by signs of increased traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Strong rally across bond markets with US 10-year rate down

📢 Crude oil prices determining benchmark interest rates and policy choices; Taiwan export orders star again; Indonesia hikes unexpectedly; UST 10yr at 4.57%; eyes on Nvidia; gold up but oil eases; NZ$1 = 58.7 USc; TWI-5 = 62.2

📢 Seek says national job advertisements are still showing hiring demand, with the number of applications per position declining from peaks levels in 2025

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Wednesday; housing confidence eases, dairy prices hold, households see higher inflation, fuel stocks stable, swaps up, long term bond yields up, NZX down, NZD down, & more 👉 More news/weather bots

📢 ANZ NZ says short term mortgage rates are cheaper but the certainty provided by longer term rates has value in the current economic climate because 'things could change quickly'

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; Vulcan Steel, Napier Port, Turners and Chorus gain as Mercury, Summerset, Tourism Holdings and Vector drag on the NZX50

📢 Tamara Wilkinson says despite criticism of changes proposed in Australia's Budget, ​the opportunities for young Aussies to earn, save, start businesses and build wealth over time remain largely available

📢 The New Zealand Tax Podcast – regulating tax agents, the capital gains tax problem for UK-based beneficiaries of trusts, and migrants now pay 38% of personal income tax

📢 Lynda Moore says in money decisions, whether practical and enjoyable, sensible and human, it turns out there's room for both

📢 Consumer NZ says no bank reached threshold for its People’s Choice Award for first time in a decade

📢 David Mahon summarises the outcomes of the recent US-China summit in Beijing from his unique Beijing-based perspective

📢 Global bond selloff returns after a one-day pause; US 30-year rate hits highest level since 2007, joining other countries seeing multi-decade highs in long-term rates

📢 Bond markets turn angry; diary prices rise; Canadian inflation up less than expected; Japan GDP rises; Aussie sentiment shows sharp age differences; UST 10yr at 4.67%; gold down but oil holds; NZ$1 = 58.4 USc; TWI-5 = 61.9 👉 More news/weather bots

📢 Mergers, money and will it actually work? The questions to ask about the Government's public service reforms

📢 Paul Griffin & Martien Lubberink say ecological investment and economic productivity shouldn’t be taken as opposing goals

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Tuesday; some TD rate increases, retail spending softer, PPI hit less than expected, record KiwiSaver funds flows, carbon price firm, swaps fall, NZD firm, & more

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; NZX50 rebounds on strength from Gentrack, Mainfreight, F&P Healthcare and Summerset. But Kathmandu, Sanford, Tourism Holdings and Vulcan Steel fall

📢 Public Service transformation: Govt departments to reduce, sinking lid on budgets, 8.7K fewer public servants target

📢 Although term deposit rate changes have lagged wholesale and mortgage rate rises, there's been a steady stream of them, shifting where you can find the highest rates

📢 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expects public service Budget announcement to mean significant reform, says public service 'not a make-work function'

📢 Jovan Pavlicevic argues banking competition is about whether the system is structurally capable of producing new winners rather than just who owns what 👉[Ad] VPN with your own dedicated IPv4. Free trial, 30-day money-back guarantee. https://vpn.photonmark.com

📢 Stephen Jacobi says the lesson for New Zealand from today’s uncertain world is that resilience matters

📢 Risk off with higher oil prices, higher global rates and weaker equity markets. US and Japan rates reach fresh milestone highs before moves fade. No developments to resolve the Mid East conflict

📢 No change in the Middle East; US data little-changed but still negative; China data weaker; Singapore exports strong; Trumps crypto partners help Iran; UST 10yr at 4.49%; gold holds but oil rises; NZ$1 = 58.7 USc; TWI-5 = 62.2

📢 New survey details how mortgage brokers rank banks and non-banks, and what they want from them

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Monday; TSB tweaks mortgage rates up, population gain rises, service sector struggles, commercial property for lease topping, swaps rise, NZX falls, NZD stable, & more

📢 Inside the Capital: Buying back the bank, babies, budgets and what you need to know

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; NZX50 opens the week lower as Air NZ, Tourism Holdings, Scales, and Vista gain, while a2 Milk, Ryman, Heartland, and Mainfreight decline

📢 A huge overhang of unsold properties does not bode well for the housing market this winter

📢 US gets bump from defensive stockpiling effects; China sees off Trump; bond markets rethink US prospects; Japan gets record PPI jump; Indian exports jump; UST 10yr at 4.60%; gold dives and oil rises; NZ$1 = 58.4 USc; TWI-5 = 61.9

📢 Global bond yields extend higher on inflation concerns. 10-year US treasury yield reaches 4.60%. Higher rates undermine equities. S&P falls more than 1%. Brent crude trades above US$109 per barrel

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📢 Roger J Kerr is watching global financial markets starting to capitulate as they see rising downsides from Trump's policies & actions. Locally he thinks the negative views of our economy are overblown

📢 To identify educational winners requires creating educational losers. Can we afford them?

📢 NZ First wants to buy BNZ from its Aussie parent, and merge it with Kiwibank to create 'a National Bank of New Zealand', says Winston Peters

📢 Shlomo Ben-Ami envisions a less stable, more fragmented future, with China benefiting from declining faith in the US

📢 Nicolas Jabko thinks US central bankers can no longer count on a deep well of conservative support for their independence

📢 Shang-Jin Wei explains how last week's meeting between the Chinese and US presidents could improve the global outlook

📢 Keith Woodford says population policy lies at the heart of future New Zealand

📢 Carolina Alves argues that using the wrong tool to manage price growth fueled by war and structural shifts is a political choice 👉 Latest AI bot for broader world news and analysis powered by OpenClaw

📢 Climate risk is changing where investors put their money – even as NZ relaxes disclosure rules

📢 Campbell Parker says the dairy has always leaned in to change. He identifies the next decade's new opportunities and wants the industry to move quicker to retain its globally competitive position

📢 Barry Eichengreen examines what's behind the rising volume - and, increasingly, the domestic vaulting - of official reserves

📢 Trump leaves Beijing with little; US stockpiling effects gathers steam; Canada housing starts stay high; Japan machine tool orders leap; Russia contracts; UST 10yr at 4.60%; gold dives and oil rises; NZ$1 = 58.4 USc; TWI-5 = 61.9