📢 'Just because it hasn't worked yet doesn't mean it's not a good idea': Government launches fresh attempt to lure supermarkets to NZ

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Monday; still awaiting ANZ's OCR response, test rates stable, service sector expands - just, housing values stay in a funk, swaps firm, NZX50 soft, NZD firmish, & more

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; NZX50 slips as NZX, Skellerup, Spark and Kiwi Property gain; SkyCity casino, a2 Milk, Vulcan Steel, and Vista are the main decliners 👉[Ad] AI video generation service powered by Veo. Try it at https://veo.photonmark.com

📢 RBNZ Assistant Governor Karen Silk says there’s still ‘some pretty good’ monetary stimulus supporting NZ's economy, election not ‘the thing that's front of mind’ when making OCR decisions

📢 Brian Easton says there is a strong case to be made that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the government agency that has contributed the most to New Zealand’s economic growth

📢 Despite the first Official Cash Rate increase in three years, ANZ NZ, ASB, BNZ and Kiwibank have left their mortgage serviceability test rates unchanged

📢 Chris Trotter separates the Australian and New Zealand protest vote leaders, noting that Winston Peters simply doesn’t possess the repressed political rage of Pauline Hanson, or the ability to communicate it

📢 Roger J Kerr says the prolonged period of NZ dollar weakness has given a major boost to our export sector with substantially higher export commodity prices. "We will now see NZD appreciation in its own right, returning all the currency cross-rates higher"

📢 Fonterra has cut its farmgate milk payour forecast for the new season by -5%, citing strong global supply and softer demand

📢 US-Iran conflict escalates, but market reaction to hostilities muted, prior to further step up in military action over the weekend. Japanese bonds and yen supported after local investors encouraged to re-allocate towards Japanese assets

📢 China car exports flood global markets; helium access a new chokepoint; Japan PPI high & rising; eyes on yen; US data languid; freight rates rise again; UST 10yr at 4.56%; gold rises; oil holds on Strait closure; NZ$1 = 57.6 USc; TWI-5 = 61.5

📢 The New Zealand Tax Podcast - Tax reform moves front and centre in the run-up to the election. Scrutiny Week highlights issues with global tech companies

📢 For fifty years, getting ahead meant a single trade: maximum leverage against residential land. Joseph Darby audits the five assumptions the trade left behind, and a replacement rule for each

📢 We tracked the floating home loan rate changes over the past two and a half years and find that the main banks have all held back some of the OCR reductions, but are passing on the latest OCR increase in full

📢 Unpacking AI: How New Zealand's AI roadshow taught me about upskilling the workforce, security and just jumping in

📢 Dambisa Moyo highlights the risks created by soaring valuations, mounting leverage, and overreliance on technology stocks

📢 Anthony Grant reminds trustees that all serious decisions should be the subject of collaborative discussion in which all trustees take part

📢 Poland was one of the fastest growing economies in the EU in 2025, expanding 3.6% in real terms. For the first time in history, Poland's nominal GDP surpassed US$1 tln, now one if the global top 20 economies. MFAT reviews the opportunities for New Zealand

📢 US real economy data mixed; Wall St enamoured with SK Hynix; China car sales strong, exports stronger; Japan PPI high; container freight rates rise; UST 10yr at 4.56%; gold rises; oil eases; NZ$1 = 57.6 USc; TWI-5 = 61.5

📢 The latest auction activity was at a low point for 2026

📢 Given the importance of AI to Australia’s future economic competitiveness, Ross Stitt says they will have to navigate strong competing hopes and fears to get these benefits

📢 Koichi Hamada weighs the merits of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call for Japanese monetary tightening as the yen sinks

📢 'It's the perception and the fear': How Official Cash Rate decisions can influence the optics of an election

📢 GST is becoming working capital. Why earlier intervention could save viable businesses, says Dave Ananth

📢 Michael Strain implores recent graduates and younger workers to be physically present at their job

📢 David Mahon finds Chinese development like crossing a river while feeling the stones. China's objectives on the far bank remain clear, but the water level is now higher, the current stronger, and the stones beneath harder to locate 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

📢 Natalia Albert argues NZ First's voting rights policy is both xenophobic and a waste of everyone's time

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Thursday; floating rate rises start to come through, factory PMIs surge except in Wellington, truckometer lags, wool prices dip, swaps rise, NZD firms, & more

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; NZX50 edges higher into the Matariki holiday despite losses from Serko, NZX, Kathmandu and Ryman; But Fletcher, Freightways, Argosy and Precinct lead the gainers

📢 New Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll shows narrowing gap between National and Labour, and their leaders

📢 Westpac is the first bank to move its floating home loan rates up after the OCR hike, and some of its savings rates too

📢 After miscalculating the initial public consultation timeframe by a day, the Toi Foundation says it will reopen community consultation on $620m TSB-Heartland deal

📢 Governor Anna Breman says it’s likely RBNZ will need to withdraw some more monetary stimulus, uncertainty over neutral interest rate following first OCR hike since May 2023

📢 IMF maintains global growth outlook; US consumer debt surprise; Fed eyes hikes if inflation stays up; Japan sentiment improves; Aussie rents jump; UST 10yr at 4.56%; gold drops; oil jumps; NZ$1 = 57 USc; TWI-5 = 60.9

📢 Oil prices surged after Trump said ceasefire with Iran was over. Weaker risk sentiment weighed on global equities. Bond yields rose as markets priced additional ECB tightening. Currencies subdued despite volatility in other markets

📢 Reserve Bank’s first Official Cash Rate hike in three years divides bank economists, but all agree more increases are coming before the year is out

📢 New Zealand is 'vulnerable' without control over the AI models it uses, Green MP Francisco Hernandez argues

📢 A review of things you need to know before you sign off on Wednesday; OCR hiked but no bank has responded yet, house values decline, dairy prices retreat, Morrisons global ambitions get a boost, swaps rise, NZD soft, NZD holds, & more

📢 Live-stream of the July 2026 RBNZ Official Cash Rate review press conference with Governor Anna Breman

📢 Here are the key changes to know about in the New Zealand equity market; mid-week weakness for the NZX50 as NZX, Oceania, Precinct and Channel Infrastructure gain to offset losses from Summerset, Gentrack, SkyCity casino and F&P Healthcare

📢 RBNZ raises Official Cash Rate 25 basis points to 2.50% with external and internal Monetary Policy Committee members reaching consensus

📢 Allan Barber lists the issues farmer-controlled boards failed to overcome with their meat processing 'investments'. It's a tough business and conflicting interests were never far from top of the list

📢 Labour promises low-interest rate schemes, subsidies, plug-in options for renters as it launches its ‘SolarSaver package’ which aims to make it easier for New Zealanders to access solar power

📢 Alistair Crozier of the New Zealand China Council explores China's AI world

📢 Electronic invoicing push about about making it easier to do business in New Zealand, Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Cameron Brewer says

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

📢 Continued volatility in technology stocks contributed to a softer tone across global equities. Attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf underpinned a rise in oil prices. Global bond yields moved higher

📢 US data wavers as inflation expectations rise; dairy prices fall; Canada trade surplus higher; Japanese household spending rises; UST 10yr at 4.48%; gold down; oil up on new Hormuz threats; NZ$1 = 56.9 USc; TWI-5 = 60.7

📢 Average NZ dwelling value down 0.4% in June quarter, now down almost 15% from 2022 peak - QV House Price Index

📢 Public Service Commissioner Brian Roche on AI, accountability, and the questions New Zealand hasn't answered yet