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National lockdown to use 'small window' to stop virus in its tracks
New Zealand is going into a four week total lockdown from midnight Wednesday to stop "tens of thousands of people from dying," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today.From Alert Level 2 announced Saturday, the government is to go to Level 4 in 48 hours and spending the next...
Policy
Economists laud size of RBNZ QE plans
Economists lauded the size of the Reserve Bank’s next, unprecedented stage of emergency support for the New Zealand economy after it committed to buying $30 billion of government bonds over the next 12 months.“This package is huge. Our analysis last week flagged the need for purc...
Finance
Pattrick Smellie: ANDREW BASCAND: Faster please to avoid the void
Even with the pace of health and economic support being rapidly mobilised to fight covid-19, Andrew Bascand, managing director of Harbour Asset Management and one of New Zealand's most astute observers of both the domestic and global economic trends, argues that we need to shift...
Economy
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What business needs to know: work from home, don't travel, stay tuned
The government is asking all businesses that can operate without opening their offices to do so from today and to expect potentially rapid changes in the alert status applying to both their own region and to the country as a whole.In a rare televised 'address to the nation' at no...
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Pattrick Smellie
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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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