National Business Review
January 2026
A million phones a day dials up record earnings for Apple
Apple Inc’s latest quarterly performance blew past expectations this week, as iPhone sales hit an all-time high of US$85.3 billion ($140.8b)
The Fed will still be guided by what happens in terms of inflation and the labour market. So maybe a little bit underwhelming for those expecting market-moving news,
Lessons Nicola Willis might learn from the 2023 Budget
As Finance Minister Nicola Willis prepares the election year Budget, it is worth taking a look back at Grant Robertson’s last Budget in 2023
Taiko Critical Minerals touts ‘world class’ West Coast deposits
Taiko Critical Minerals touts ‘world class’ West Coast deposits
TikTok stops the clock on US uncertainty
The video creation platform has secured its future in the US by carving off its operations
NZ Rugby returning to US with All Blacks South Africa test match
The game between the All Blacks and the Springboks will be played in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 71,000-capacity M&T Bank Stadium
Retailers not out of the woods after disappointing December drop
Otago Cricket gets involved in new European T20 league
Fletcher sells Construction businesses for $315.6m
Legal tech startup Ivo raises US$55m in Series B round
Since its last US$16m funding round in early 2025, Ivo has grown annual recurring revenue by 500% and increased total
Luxon: The recovery is here but don’t expect a ‘lolly scramble’
Trump vs Powell fight fails to spook market that’s already inured
We've created such a big drama and such a big kind of macroeconomic imbalance and problem that the normal passage of monetary policy, the things that we've obsessed about over however long our careers have lasted, tend to be a bit less relevant because the numbers are just so big,
The AI theme continues to pump along pretty healthily at the front end,
‘Chasing the sun’ as Lodestone mulls IPO
‘Chasing the sun’ as Lodestone mulls IPO
Stay in your lane: Foreign Minister criticises new RBNZ Governor
New RBNZ Governor Anna Breman has signed a joint letter of support for Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve from global central bankers, raising the ire of Foreign Minister Winston Peters
Trump’s Fed putsch unlikely to embolden copycats
Global markets shrug off Trump's Venezuela incursion
A cracking year for listed property looms, housing uncertain
The latter was all the more impressive in the context of a domestic corporate bond market which was up 5.5% and an equity