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Financier debt on failed Dawn Park apartment project declared at $53.4m

High interest rates and rising costs of labour and materials blamed for Dawn Park trouble.

Are workplace romances a savvy investment?

FT: Mistletoe encounters at staff parties are rarely encouraged - but they might pay off.

NZ Jet looks for clearer air in luxury market

Some sectors feeling heat from tough economy but luxury flight deals weathering the storm.

Chinese borrowers default in record numbers as economic crisis deepens

Financial Times: Millions of people are blacklisted by authorities after missed payments.

Kiwi kitset assembly company raising $7m to expand to US

Growing business assembles everything from barbecues to sheds.

KiwiSaver: Early withdrawals double as purses put under strain

With rising costs, significantly more people are withdrawing from KiwiSaver early.

Diana Clement: Biggest money mistakes people make when Christmas shopping

OPINION: Every year, retailers have a field day regarding our psychology at Christmas.

New Bunnings store anchors large Taupō development

Plans have been released for a proposed new retail development in Taupō.

Mary Holm: How did our homes get to be so big?

OPINION: Houses have been gentrified out of reach for some people to buy, a reader says.

Business Confidence: ‘Soft landing’ in play as optimism lifts - ANZ

While coalition talks dragged on into November firms' sentiment continued to improve

Scam stoppers: ASB boss says safety before speed of payments

Bank scams cost Kiwis an estimated $200m in a year - so what's ASB doing about it?

Which airline holds power over the Tasman?

An application to regulators has shone a light on the post-Covid market.

Tough times ahead for building sector as consents continue to drop annually

Building consents were down 14 per cent in October 2023 compared to October 2022.

'Strange' Three Waters $107m software contract should be probed

NZ software boss says offshore legacy company's $107m win was 'strange'.

Genesis Energy to use Kupe profits for strategic reset

The power generator has outlined a new strategic plan.

Amazon cloud boss takes swipe at Microsoft over OpenAI turmoil

Financial Times: AWS also debuts Amazon Q AI assistant, expands Nvidia partnership.

New $30m Mitre 10 Mega Silverdale redundancies 'lowering labour costs'

'Achieve our objective of lowering labour costs, maintaining customer service standards.'

Power back on after outage in central Auckland hits businesses

Chunk of city's east side, parts of university were hit by the outage.