Services

Alternative job seekers drive spike in apprenticeship training

Brent Melville
Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Tertiary training institutions say they are being inundated with New Zealanders who want to redeploy into alternative careers across construction and other vocational trades. The surge comes as the number of Kiwis on the jobseeker benefit or covid-related support payments jumped by 2,700 during the first week of the higher alert levels in Auckland and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warning of a “long tail” in the ongoing community cluster, increasing the risk of a further slowdown in hiring. There have already been hits to smaller operator...

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Markets

MARKET OPEN: Kiwi slumps as traders lose their nerve

Paul McBeth | Tue, 22 Sep 2020

The New Zealand dollar dropped more than 1 US cent as traders dumped risk-sensitive assets amid renewed fears about the economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic.The kiwi dropped to 66.66 US cents at 8am in Wellington from 67.71 cents at 5pm yesterday, joining an extended selloff...

Economy

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Listed Companies

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