Murray Crane: Crane Brothers founder on the store extending their High Street lease

As more stores across Auckland's CBD close their doors for good, Crane Brothers has reaffirmed their commitment to the area. After extending their High Street lease for another 25 years, founder Murray Crane recently revealed the store would expand into the space vacated by Ruby. Crane says Covid…

Greg Fleming: National MP on the cross party support for the Modern Slavery Bill

National and Labour are joining forces in support of legislation to tackle modern slavery.  Their bipartisan backing means the Bill can be introduced in Parliament, bypassing the ballot system.  The proposed law would require large companies to report their measures to avoid slavery conditions in…

Sam Dickie: Fisher Funds expert on Meta and Microsoft reporting their results

Meta and Microsoft are among the big tech companies that just released their quarterly results after the stock market closed, and there's more results to come. Meta shares were up 9 percent, but Microsoft stock was down about 5 percent. Sam Dickie from Fisher Funds unpacked the data further. LIS…

Simon Squibb: entrepreneur and influencer reveals why he's committed to helping Kiwis fund their dreams

Simon Squibb has always been committed to encouraging people to fulfil their dreams, and as a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, he's in a position to make real change.  He's invested in startups, used his professional insight to write a book - What’s Your Dream? Find Your Passion. Love Your Work. Bu…

Nikki Dines: Air New Zealand Chief People Officer on the planned cabin crew strike to take place in February

Air New Zealand says it hopes to avoid a three-day strike by international cabin crew in February. E tū Union and the Flight Attendants Association have issued strike notices for wide-body crews on 787 and 777 Boeing flights. The airline's Chief People Officer, Nikki Dines, says they've covered a…

Brendan Larsen: Milford Asset Management expert on the possibility of more OCR changes

The Reserve Bank spent most of 2025 lowering the OCR, leaving experts to speculate how these changes impacted the economy. Since then, economic and business confidence has gone up for the start of 2026, but inflation data for the December quarter has raised some concerns Milford Asset Management …

Malcolm Fleming: NZ Certified Builders CEO on the rise in construction business liquidations

2026 has been a rough year for New Zealand's construction sector, with multiple businesses going bust in January alone. Reports show there were 22 applications to put building or property related companies into liquidation over the 7 days from January 20 to January 27. NZ Certified Builders CEO M…

Brad Olsen: Infometrics Principal Economist on the possibility of the OCR going up later this year

The Official Cash Rate is expected to rise this year, although forecasters say predicting when is tricky. Inflation was stronger in the December quarter than expected, at 3.1 percent. Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen is picking a hike in November - with an outside possibility of one in …

Chris Wilkinson: First Retail Group Managing Director on Michael Hill reporting its first positive result in over two years

A possible sign of the economic recovery with Michael Hill's New Zealand operation reporting its first positive result in more than two years.  In the six months to December the jeweller made $62 million worth of sales, increasing by 2.4%.  First Retail Group Managing Director Chris Wilkinson say…

Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the market reactions to the NZ-India trade deal

Despite Labour raising some concerns with the Government's trade deal with India, the move has been welcomed by rural economists. Trade analyst Stephen Jacobi says the Government timed the deal perfectly - and might have had to wait years if they prolonged the negotiations. The Country's Jamie Ma…