Money
Your Money with Mary Holm
Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the New Zealand share market's current downward trend and what to do when your Kiwisaver value wobbles. Audio
Midday Business News for 27 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Rising prices exacerbate poverty
Inflation continues to run hot -- with the latest figures from Stats NZ putting the consumer price index at 5.9 percent in the year to December.
To take a closer look at the effects of rising prices… Audio
Inflation rate hits 30 year high
Inflation continues to run hot with the latest figures from Stats NZ putting the consumer price index at 5.9 percent in the year to December.
The major drivers for annual inflation were housing… Audio
The cost of the pandemic: the financial winners and losers
Analysis by a financial journalist has found the Government's Covid-19 policies have made the wealthy hundreds of billions of dollars richer, while the poor sunk $400 million further into debt to the… Audio
New lending rules confusing aspiring homeowners
Aspiring homeowners are locking up their lives - including possibly cutting health costs - to try increase their chances of getting loans approved by banks under stricter rules.
Househunters go into spending lockdown to secure loans
Wannabe homeowners are locking up their lives to try to increase their chances of getting a mortgage.
Banks are now tougher to convince with potential mortgage applicants now having to reveal more… Audio
Inflation figures set to come out today
Inflation figures come out today with what's expected to be highest rate in three decades.
It comes as the economy braces for more disruption with the arrival of the Omicron variant of Covid-19… Audio
School uniforms 'increasingly unaffordable for most families' - charity
Variety - the Children's Charity says it has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of claims for school uniforms from 2020 to 2021. Audio
'Artificial lockdown' could hit economy once Omicron takes hold
The arrival of Omicron is set to disrupt and slow economic recovery, according to one prominent economist.
Anti-poverty group says families package still falling short
The government's touting the success of a families package scheme, saying it helped more than half of all families with children in its first year.
Introduced in 2018, the Families Package boosted… Audio
Midday Business News for 26 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Hundreds of thousands in savings needed to retire: guidelines
Warnings we can't afford to retire unless Kiwis save up to $800,000 to top up the pension are coming from a research centre interested in improving the financial wellbeing of New Zealanders. The… Audio
New Plymouth agri-chemical site 'ticking time bomb' - mayor
The government is being called on to step in to force a multi-national agri-chemical business to clean up its New Plymouth production site which the local mayor has described as a "ticking time bomb".
…'On the verge of civil disobedience': Rising cost of living in Aotearoa
A "perfect storm" of the rising costs of basic necessities, inflation, and Covid-19 have a social service warning of possible "civil disobedience" - with people forced to take what they need to live.
Cost of living will lead to hardship, disobedience - advocates
Social service providers are worried soaring living costs will lead to hardship and even civil disobedience.
They say people could be forced to take what they need to live. Petrol, food and house… Audio
Property market hits peak, but unemployment poses risk to prices
The property market has peaked according to latest market research, with any increase in the rate of unemployment likely to put further pressure on price growth.
Australian inflation surges in last quarter; interest rates tipped to rise
Australia's inflation rose at its fastest annual pace since 2014 in the December quarter as fuel and housing costs led broad-based price pressures.
Midday Business News for 25 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Economic abuse: 'We've also heard of threats ... if they didn't take the debt' - BNZ
One of the country's major banks says it is finding a concerning number of instances of economic abuse, including people being saddled with someone else's debt, or having no control over their…
