National Business Review
February 2026
Air NZ reports deeper HY earnings loss than expected
Featured Video: Interview with the Governor
Considerable uncertainty remains for US exporters, McClay says
Reserve Bank, employment law, infrastructure, Winston Peters
RBNZ ‘focusing on the reality on the ground’: Breman
Contact capital raise ‘the right thing to do’
NZSA endorses offer structure as supporting long-term shareholder returns; largest shareholder Infratil wouldn't comment on whether it would support the raise
Tech sector sell-off continues but Skellerup boosts confidence
A tech sector stock market sell-off continued this week as investors worried that the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested by hyperscalers into AI infrastructure may take more time to show a return than expected
If we saw similar results through the season, I think investors would be pretty well pleased,
Investors seek earnings truth amid ‘green shoots’ cliché
What regulators are missing with indoor versus sungrown cannabis
Government tax revenue up slightly and spending down
The Treasury has released the financial statements for the six months to the end of December
Real change needed for lobbying and campaign finance rules
NZ’s transparency and integrity slowly being chipped away: TINZ
Govt confirms LNG facility for Taranaki
The week that AI came for tech stocks
It was prompted after AI developer Anthropic launched new plug-ins for its Claude Cowork agent that could automate tasks across legal, sales and marketing teams, and data analysis
Santana consent, Iggy Pops, Fonterra cheese, ComCom CBF
CODC endorses Bendigo-Ophir project