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Smith & Caughey's to close its doors after 145 years in retail
The company closed its Newmarket store last year due to financial difficulties, and will fully close on 31 July.
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Budget 2025: Can austerity be turned into growth?
7:31 pm todayAnalysis - The government has proclaimed 2025 the year of growth, but can it deliver when all the indications are that it is close to running on empty?
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One digit wrong, $2000 lost
3:33 pm todayA man who lost $2000 when he got one number wrong in a bank transfer has been told to drop his complaint.
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Labour slams 'big tax breaks' for big tech as digital levy ditched
6:20 pm todayLabour says the government's decision to dump plans for a digital services tax is a tax break for tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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'Seems crazy': Bakery using Aussie broker to buy butter
1:06 pm todayIt is too expensive to buy butter directly from NZ dairy companies.
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FMA staff face compulsory weekly survey in strive for efficiency
5:16 pm todayThe Financial Markets Authority has told staff to complete a weekly survey detailing things like hours worked, tasks completed daily and how long they took.
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More businesses paying ransoms to cyber criminals
5:51 pm todayA survey of 150 New Zealand organisations found that 44 percent of those targeted in the past two years paid up. Audio
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Where does money come from? Are home loans actually 'fake'?
7:35 am todayYou earn it, spend it, invest it. But do you know where it comes from?
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Napier port profits show recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle
10:32 am todayThe port of Napier has had a strong profit rebound.
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Excitement afoot in rural village over Defence Force sock contract
8:41 am todayThe Norsewood-based factory beat a number of serious international competitors to secure the deal. Audio
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Meridian Energy to replace five transformers at Manapōuri Power Station
Meridian said the decision came after advice from independent experts.
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How does Costco offer butter so cheap?
20 May 2025It was organised chaos this week at Costco when another delivery of butter arrived. Audio
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Hygiene-grade wool producer wants to be the Fonterra of wool
20 May 2025Wellington start-up Woolchemy is challenging a $126 billion industry dominated by synthetic materials.
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NZ's new cheapest petrol station revealed
20 May 2025For a long time, it was Gull Ātiamuri - but no more. Here's why that's changed. Audio
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Serko lifts income, bottom-line loss increases
20 May 2025Travel software company Serko has lifted its income thanks to its partnership with global giant Booking.com, while its bottom-line loss deepened.
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How many years would you have to skip coffee to save enough for a house?
20 May 2025You might have heard the advice: Give up the takeaway coffee, cut back on the avocado on toast. RNZ has crunched the numbers.
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Willis to turn attention to supermarket sector after Budget
The government is putting together proposals to increase competition after hearing from supermarket chains and smaller operators. Audio
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Tower posts improved profit, plans to expand risk based pricing
20 May 2025The insurer is to extend its risk based approach to include sea surge and landslide risks.
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Potential new tax has top accountant concerned
19 May 2025Inland Revenue plans to make some societies and associations' membership fees subject to tax.
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Government may face big hole in climate plan
19 May 2025A huge chunk of the nation's next emissions budget rests on a single project, which the owner now says probably won't happen.
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Service sector index drops signalling soft economic recovery
19 May 2025It's weighing on the pace of recovery.
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The people who want to keep working forever
19 May 2025Stats New Zealand data shows tens of thousands are working in their 70s, 80s and even 90s. What keeps them at their posts?
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Transpower u-turns on sale of NZ's only gas trading platform
19 May 2025Last year, the national grid operator put the platform up for sale.
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Planning a holiday? Here's where your dollar might go further than normal
19 May 2025New Zealand's dollar has become a little stronger against the US in the past month.
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Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices
18 May 2025The world's largest retailer said this week it would have to start raising prices later this month due to high tariffs.
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Apparent vandalism to fibre cables in Auckland fixed
18 May 2025Chorus says apparent vandalism that took hundreds of Aucklanders offline a few days ago has been fixed.
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'Trump bump' expected to lift inflation
16 May 2025Reserve Bank survey had 41 responses from business leaders and professional forecasters.
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NZ groceries cheaper than UK, Australia, if you take off GST
16 May 2025Woolworths New Zealand claims a 'full basket' in New Zealand is 10 percent cheaper. Audio
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