New university research on cooperatives shows they have an overwhelming dominance of the agri-foods sector and a big share of retailing and wholesaling.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/cooperatives-study-measures-scale-and-role-not-performance-ng-p-198691

The government is being urged to make Auckland’s housing crisis its top priority this year.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/fixing-severe-housing-unaffordability-has-be-top-priority-government-nz-initiative-sl-p

Steven Jacobi on US TPP withdrawal - "ultimately, this will be defeating for the American worker"

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Consumer price index (CPI) data due later this week is expected to show inflation has come back into the Reserve Bank’s target range and the kiwi dollar will probably rise.

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Employees often come back to work a bit jaded after the long Christmas break, with recruitment agencies invariably seeing a spike in business.

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Freshly minted US President Donald Trump showed an “incredibly selfish approach” in his inauguration speech and “pretends he can go it alone” without US partners.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/trumps-speech-shows-incredible-selfishness-victoria-professor-says-ns-p-198673

The political year kicks off with a by-election to accompany the usual round of "state of the nation" speeches from political leaders.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/politics-tricky-mt-albert-election

Comvita (NZX:CVT) has had the biggest slide on the stock exchange today after it told the market annual profit would be far less than expected.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/market-slams-comvita-after-shock-downgrade-cs-p-198678

Healthcare Partners says it isn’t using Computershare subsidiary Georgeson to lobby Abano Healthcare shareholders and neither is it conducting proxy solicitation.

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For once, the Reserve Bank will be thanking volatile petrol prices for pushing annual inflation back within its target band for the first time in nine quarters – but underlying inflation remains weak.

Read more ($): https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/petrol-price-volatility-should-deliver-inflation-within-reserve-bank-target-jr-p-198651