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ELE group collapse: Fears hundred more workers will lose jobs
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Market Watch: What to expect in 2024 and what we picked right and wrong in 2023
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2023 a good year for NZ's renewable energy projects
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Benefits of extending 90-day trials aren't worth the costs - MBIE
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ELE group collapse: Volunteers race to help hundreds of laid-off workers
Woolworths provided $25,000 of food vouchers for the laid-off workers.
Sasha Borissenko: Santa’s 2023 naughty list of lawyers
OPINION: Conflicts of interest, inflated fees and sexual harassment were in the spotlight.
Liam Dann: Everything that will definitely happen in 2024 revealed
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Engineered stone firm sent WorkSafe notices; rejects landlord’s claim of unsafe practices
Engineered or artificial stone will soon be banned in Australia.
ELE collapse: Filipino community stunned after mass layoffs days before Christmas
Numerous offers of help have been made to laid off staff.
Wall Street slams the brakes for a rare slowdown after record-setting rally
S&P 500 had its worst loss since beginning a monster-sized run shortly before Halloween.
Jenée Tibshraeny: Govt faces tough trade-offs to improve books
The work starts now for Finance Minister Nicola Willis.
RBNZ digesting data before softening tough talk on inflation
Adrian Orr highlights differences between NZ and US, where there's talk of rate cuts.
Scott Gilmour: Poverty - what can be done?
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Kāinga Ora review won't slow public housing build - for now at least
Chris Bishop commits to continuing to grow the number of public houses.
Car imports take a tumble in November but we still have a trade deficit
A big drop in EV imports is a strong feature of the latest overseas trade statistics.
Jenée Tibshraeny: Mini-Budget to be a scene-setter, not a Christmas treat
Treasury's forecasts are likely to be rosier than reality.
Liam Dann: Inflation, cyclones and politics - an entirely unreliable 2023 year in review
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Sharemarket well-positioned for 2024 after stronger-than-expected year - Mark Lister
OPINION: Our market is heavily weighted to defensive businesses that pay dividends.
Why Argentina's shock measures may be the best hope for its ailing economy
Painful economic steps new president announced sound draconian.
Employers spoilt for choice in tight job market
Job ads fell in two major cities but some regions still have traces of the great job boom.
Time to talk OCR cuts, not hikes, economist says
The economy shrank in the third quarter as households spent less and exports fell.
Liam Dann: Never mind the technicalities, New Zealand is in recession
OPINION: If there's an upside to grim GDP data, it may be we'll get through this sooner.