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Markets
MARKET OPEN: All eyes on lockdown easing announcement
Domestic markets will likely trade sideways as investors wait to hear if lockdown restrictions will be eased further. Cabinet is due to decide today whether the country moves from alert level 3 to alert level 2, which would essentially normalise most activity with restrictions...
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Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: 5 things to watch for in the Budget
Amidst a welter of commentary about how momentous this Thursday’s Budget will be, how about this for a prediction? Prepare to be disappointed.
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Finance
JENNY RUTH: Augusta rescue mission a sign of the times
Snouts in troughs was probably the cynical first reaction to the spectacular deal ASX-listed Centuria Capital is getting from the $45 million Augusta capital raising. Those snouts mucking in could well be the case but, viewed from a different vantage, the situation could also...
Services
Trans-Tasman bubble by July?
The Australian government has announced a path to near-normal life across the Ditch that could see the trans-Tasman travel bubble in operation as early as July.Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a three-phase approach to returning the Australian economy to as near to normal...
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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