New Zealand

Finance Minister Michael Cullen today presented the budget for 2000-01 (July-June).

The current account deficit widened to 8.5 million NZ dollars (4 billion US dollars), or 8.5% of...

Yesterday's rise in US interest rates has reinforced the bias towards monetary tightening...

The rate of unemployment rose to 6.4% in the first three months of the year, from 6.3% in the...

Treasurer Michael Cullen said today that much of the government's planned 5.9 billion NZ dollars...

The Reserve Bank today raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 6%.

Consumer prices rose 0.7% in the first quarter from the previous three months, officials said...

Retail sales rose 0.8% in February from the previous month to 3.5 billion NZ dollars (1.8...