Stories by Susan Edmunds

ASB has cut its six-month rate to 6.39 percent, its one-year rate to 5.99 percent and 18-month rate to 5.79 percent - but terms longer than that might be as low as they'll go, forecasters say.

Here's how our inflation battle has changed New Zealand's economy.

Kiwibank's chief executive says it is like being "a high school team playing the All Blacks".

The government should abandon any requirement for the Reserve Bank to have "gender or ethnic balance" on its board, a former senior staffer says.

Home Depot may have made the news recently for requiring corporate staff to work on the shop floor - but that's common in many New Zealand retail outlets, one retail expert says.

Sales prices are inching closer to asking prices - but is it buyers or sellers moving?

We've been handed a B - but by one important measure we're performing less well than we were.

The Department of Conservation is bottom of the pack when it comes to paying invoices on time, data shows.

Most first-home buyers are now at least 35, but there's a warning borrowing later in life can come with hurdles. Audio

Here's how much you have to prove to banks you can pay. Audio

RNZ says the advertisements undermine trust but have also started falsely attributing content to its journalists.

'Fingers crossed it's a really exciting war and people are going to benefit from it,' says a mortgage broker.

如果员工年假不足，将被要求休无薪假。

If they don't have enough leave, the "base expectation" is they will take leave without pay, they've been told.

A tenant has been told to pay more than $7500 to her landlord over the unapproved pets.

There's been a rush of people with fixed mortgage rates regret looking for solutions.

Just over 2000 jobs were lost from the public service between December and June, new data shows.

New data shows how tight things are getting for many New Zealanders.

But who are the 300 people who say they work all the time?

The Reserve Bank will pay its first dividend to the government in three years - in part because of the higher interest rates of the past year.

The Reserve Bank opted for a double cut, but the economy is a long way from "double happy".

The Reserve Bank's decision to cut the official cash rate will help the property market, but house prices may still only increase slowly from here.

业内人士建议，在锁定贷款之前永远要试着争取一下，说不定还有更多的优惠。

If you're refixing your home loan, it's worth pushing, a brokers say.

The move comes as the Reserve Bank updates its official cash rate on Wednesday, with calls for it to drop by 50 basis points to 4.75%.