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

New Zealand’s current account deficit, now running at $27 bln per annum, is increasingly dominated by interest on historical ...

Commodity prices show weakness; China extends support, promises more; US still worried about inflation; heat & bushfires ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely ...

Nearly every cabinet or staff appointment announced by US President-elect Donald Trump has been met with a predictable wave of media outrage. Some of this hysteria can be attributed to deep-seated ...

Anyway, that’s where we’re headed in 2025, it seems: cheaper and more capable models, which more people can afford to use, ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST 10yr at 4.59%; gold down and oil up; NZ$1 = 56.1 USc; TWI = 66.9 4th Jan 25, 8 ...

In April 2024, a spokesperson for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte suggested that the Philippines and China had entered into an undisclosed “gentleman’s agreement” between 2016 and 2022.

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 ...