Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard warned of the need to avoid a return to a “debt-fuelled housing cycle”, as the bank published its six-monthly Financial Stability Report today....

Last month we reported on the relative high point in net permanent and long term migration levels – with New Zealand’s net gain in population rising, we showed, primarily as result of fewer departures rather than more arrivals....

An easing in confidence in the service, retail and manufacturing sectors has seen overall business confidence in October drop 1% from September to 48%, after reaching levels not seen in a decade last month....

If you die without a will or your will is deemed to be invalid, then you are said to have died intestate....