Our weekly collection of news bites, hot takes, and gossip around the town.

ANALYSIS: PM refuses to rebuke Peters over his funding threat to RNZ. Count on Winston Peters to spark an otherwise dull, political week.

The ASX has been caught in the global contagion created by Donald Trump's tariff turmoil. Volatile equity markets in 2025 ...

As well as the motor vehicle franchises, Leach owns a string of valuable showrooms and car yards that are collectively worth more than $55 million. The most valuable property is the Isuzu yard in ...

The chair of retirement village provider Summerset, Mark Verbiest, was questioned at this week’s annual meeting about why he holds his “relatively small 11,500 Summerset shares through his wife”, ...

The European Union has fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the bloc’s digital competition laws.

Cancer diagnostics company Pacific Edge has failed in its attempted legal challenge of a US decision halting public funding ...

New Zealand consumers expect inflation to rise further as they monitor the global trade tariff turmoil. The ANZ-Roy Morgan ...

New Zealand-founded tech company Supabase has reportedly landed venture capital investment of US$200 million ($336m) at a post-money valuation of US$2 billion. Wānaka-based co-founder Paul Copplestone ...

Money has been described many times as the last taboo. Despite our social advances it’s still regarded as a bit icky to talk about it over dinner. Even amongst the one group you’d expect to be more ...