All that glitters: New Zealand’s luxury market ready to shine in 2026
Auckland’s Queen St is home to Partridge’s, Tiffany & Co, Prada, Dior, Louis Vuitton, BVLGARI, Gucci and Swarovski.…
Cotality: House prices flat in 2025 but forecast to rise 5% in 2026
Southland’s districts hit record median values in December and several provincial centres, such as New Plymouth and Queenstown,…
This Vietnamese town boomed as factories left China. Now it’s asking what’s next?
BAC NINH, Vietnam (AP) — The transformation of Vietnam’s Bac Ninh is evident in the signs above its…
Infratil surge helps lift NZ sharemarket – Market close
Mark Lister, investment director with Craigs Investment Partners, said the first trading day of 2026 was off to…
Polar and Coros: Smaller smartwatch manufacturers that offer solid alternatives to the Garmin Fenix
Coros still offers MIP displays The Nomad is a smartwatch released in mid-2025 that also features an ECG and…
Value of Australian dollar now dependent on interest rates, commodities prices and geopolitics
The Australian dollar has been on a slow march down from a peak of 109 US cents achieved…
This isn’t a housing market meltdown, it’s a full-blown crash – Liam Dann
If you are in Auckland or Wellington, the current property market slump is one of the worst in…
NZ’s top economists pick the big issues for New Zealand in 2026
That’s where the economists come in. So brace yourself, here is a compilation of the big economic issues…
Holiday blues make for quiet end to NZX year – Market close
Another quiet day Harbour Asset Management portfolio manager Shane Solly said it was another in-between day with market…
Workplace trends for 2026: From AI capability to part-time pathways
A recent Employment Hero survey of 500 New Zealand workers, titled Employment Uncovered, found 41% are actively or…
NZ sharemarket flat post-Christmas – Market close
Manuka’s New Zealand subsidiary, Trans-Tasman Resources, is advancing its offshore, vanadium-rich iron sands project in the South Taranaki…
Index providers anticipate AI and private market potential: S&P DJI
Markets Passive investments grow with money flowing into dividend ETFs in Asia Jason Ye of S&P Dow Jones…