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Midday Business News for 31 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
'The shoe's on the other foot' - demand for workers spurs moves for more pay
The low unemployment rate and high inflation is prompting jobseekers to ask for more money from current and prospective employers.
Market analyst: 'NTFs are complete folly'
Last year saw the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a form of digital provenance. However, senior market analyst at Oanda, Jeffrey Halley, says NFTs are reaching peak hype, and their… Audio
Market analyst: 'NFTs are complete folly'
NFT digital ownership tokens have seen a meteoric rise, but market analyst Jeffrey Halley warns they've been hyped by a 'buy-anything' cycle, and the music's about to stop. Audio
Midday Business News for 28 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Surging inflation, Omicron outbreak weighs on consumer confidence
The ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence showed fewer people feeling better off financially at present, and only slightly more cheery about their prospects over the coming year.
Covid-19: Wealth gap widened in pandemic - research
Research is showing that the wealth gap in New Zealand has grown wider due to the government's Covid-19 policies.
Financial journalist Bernard Hickey has analysed 21 months of data looking at Stats… Audio
Announcement coming on Auckland light rail project
The Government will this morning announce the route and cost of Auckland's long-awaited light rail project.
Three options were presented to Cabinet last year, each of which run from the City Centre… Audio
'Diabolical' prices, inflation leaves working professionals out of pocket
The new record inflation figures come as no shock to many, with rising housing, fuel and construction costs putting the pinch on even those with means.
Your Money with Mary Holm
Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the New Zealand share market's current downward trend and what to do when your Kiwisaver value wobbles. Audio
Midday Business News for 27 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Rising prices exacerbate poverty
Inflation continues to run hot -- with the latest figures from Stats NZ putting the consumer price index at 5.9 percent in the year to December.
To take a closer look at the effects of rising prices… Audio
Inflation rate hits 30 year high
Inflation continues to run hot with the latest figures from Stats NZ putting the consumer price index at 5.9 percent in the year to December.
The major drivers for annual inflation were housing… Audio
The cost of the pandemic: the financial winners and losers
Analysis by a financial journalist has found the Government's Covid-19 policies have made the wealthy hundreds of billions of dollars richer, while the poor sunk $400 million further into debt to the… Audio
New lending rules confusing aspiring homeowners
Aspiring homeowners are locking up their lives - including possibly cutting health costs - to try increase their chances of getting loans approved by banks under stricter rules.
Househunters go into spending lockdown to secure loans
Wannabe homeowners are locking up their lives to try to increase their chances of getting a mortgage.
Banks are now tougher to convince with potential mortgage applicants now having to reveal more… Audio
Inflation figures set to come out today
Inflation figures come out today with what's expected to be highest rate in three decades.
It comes as the economy braces for more disruption with the arrival of the Omicron variant of Covid-19… Audio
School uniforms 'increasingly unaffordable for most families' - charity
Variety - the Children's Charity says it has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of claims for school uniforms from 2020 to 2021. Audio
'Artificial lockdown' could hit economy once Omicron takes hold
The arrival of Omicron is set to disrupt and slow economic recovery, according to one prominent economist.
Anti-poverty group says families package still falling short
The government's touting the success of a families package scheme, saying it helped more than half of all families with children in its first year.
Introduced in 2018, the Families Package boosted… Audio
