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Up or down - how does the Official Cash Rate actually affect your mortgage rate?

What is the Official Cash Rate and how does it control lending rates?

Property Insider: Contentious retirement village survey, who wants $500k+ from failed builder

More than 300 NZ retirement villages and 71 operators ranked according to best practice.

Chorus chief executive to depart, new CEO named

JB Rousselot to step down in April.

Company results: Vector and Heartland report

Extreme weather increased Vector's expenditure.

Sir John Key to step down as ANZ NZ chair, leave ANZ Group board

Key became chair of ANZ NZ in 2018 after joining the board a year earlier.

ASB takes a punt on some home loan rates ahead of cash rate decision

A 'volatile' global environment was a factor in the home loan rates decision.

China’s plan to reshape world trade on its own terms

Financial Times: Friction with the West has prompted Beijing to build its own alternative.

Earnings preview: Where Spark could surprise

What analysts will be watching when the telco reports this week.

Retirement company boss explains how they lifted profit in a housing downturn

Wood, insulation and carpet price rises are limited or capped to de-risk building jobs.

Revaluations boost retirement giant Summerset Group's bottom-line profit

CEO Scott Scoullar: 'We withstood challenges and continued to grow.'

Restaurant Brands profit sliced almost in half

Kiwi company's California outfit fails to sizzle as inflation takes a bite.

The AI boom catapulted Nvidia into tech’s big league. Can it stay there?

Financial Times: Two years ago, Nvidia was known to only the most dedicated gamers.

The 18-year-olds taking on the men’s personal hygiene market

Small business: The pair already have big plans to expand their range of products.

Kiwifruit industry ticks Zespri plans to boost growers' shares investment

Industry alignment of growers and shareholders seen as major challenge ahead.

To hike or not to hike - economists divided on RBNZ's big rate call

ANZ is expecting the official cash rate to be raised from 5.5 per cent next week.

Dividend payments expected to spike ahead of trustee tax rate rising

IRD says accelerating dividend payments is unlikely to be considered tax avoidance.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett admits days of 'eye-popping' gains are over

FT: The investment guru says the days of big gains are over for Berkshire Hathaway.

Obituary: Auckland businessman Graeme Edwards

One of the former owners of Alloy Yachts, Graeme Edwards, has died.