The NZ Super Fund’s biggest shareholdings are in Big Tech – and that helped it to record gains in the year to June 30, according to its just-released annual report. And look for more of the same in 2022, because
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Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Mt Roskill takeaways identified as location of interest seven times
A new release of locations of interest by the Ministry of Health shows a person infected with Covid-19 was at an Auckland takeaways seven times over the past week. Three Kings Takeaways Mt Roskill was the only location of interest
Hidden debt on Chinas Belt and Road tops $554b, says new study
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has left scores of lower- and middle-income countries saddled with “hidden debts” totalling US$385 billion ($554.1b). New research suggests that many countries’ financial liabilities linked to President Xi Jinping’s hallmark foreign policy have been systematically
Opinion | Republicans Are Playing a Dangerous Game With Debt
By Michael R. Strain Mr. Strain is an economist and the director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Senate Republicans say they believe the nation’s borrowing limit should be raised, and don’t want the United States to
Boxer-senator Manny Pacquiao to run for Philippine president The Denver Post
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections. Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his PDP-Laban party at its national convention on Sunday, saying that the Filipino people have
US-China fallout over Internet, data and regulation may raise legal issues for businesses, says DBS chief
SINGAPORE – The ongoing stand-off between the United States and China over a range of issues threatens to upend the open and united nature of the internet and entangle banks and other firms in legal problems in the years ahead,
Divided Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in place The Denver Post
WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state. The court voted 5-4 to deny
Fall of Afghanistan: Ex-UK leader Tony Blair slams Afghan withdrawal
Tony Blair, the British prime minister who deployed troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, says the US decision to withdraw from the country has “every Jihadist group round the world cheering”. In a lengthy essay posted
Brian Fallow: Wartime economy is no time for interest rate rises
OPINION: This week’s labour market numbers are comprehensively strong. They are back to the levels the Reserve Bank, in its last pre-Covid monetary policy statement, described as at or slightly above maximum sustainable employment. So that leg of its dual
Donald Trump hits out at Mike Pence, teases comeback in hours-long interview
Two months after he left the White House “against his will”, Donald Trump gave an interview for the ages, revealed as part of a new book on his “chaotic” final year as US President. During the hours-long chat on March