Wellington, Jan 16 NZPA - ASB and Westpac both announced cuts to some fixed home loan rates and their variable home loan rates today.

Wellington, Jan 16 NZPA - ASB and Westpac both announced cuts to some fixed home loan rates and their variable home loan rates today.

Wellington, Jan 16 NZPA - Westpac New Zealand is cutting some fixed home loan rates for the second time in a week and is also cutting its variable home loan rate.

Wellington, Jan 15 NZPA - BNZ is dropping its fixed mortgage rates by between 21 and 90 basis points and Kiwibank is dropping both its fixed and floating rates.

Wellington, Jan 6 NZPA - Goodman Property Trust says it has completed a refinancing programme with the renewal of more than $900 million of debt funding facilities. All the main debt facility had been renewed, the NZX-listed industrial and business property investor said today.

National and Labour fought their way through pitfalls and panics in 2008 with the prize of election victory never out of their sights. NZPA Political Editor PETER WILSON reports on the year that changed the face of Parliament.

Wellington, Dec 17 NZPA - State-owned Kiwibank's advertisements putting down Australian-owned banks are "reprehensible" and "outrageous", says former Bank of New Zealand chairman Kerry McDonald.

By Peter Wilson of NZPA Wellington, Dec 9 NZPA - Labour leader Phil Goff vowed to hold the new government to account for its pre-election promises when Parliament began the debate in reply to the Speech from the Throne today.

Wellington, Dec 4 NZPA - Banks moved within hours to slash home loan rates in the wake of the Reserve Bank cutting its official cash rate by a record 1.5 percentage points to 5 percent.

Wellington, Dec 4 NZPA - Banks moved within hours to slash home loan rates in the wake of the Reserve Bank cutting its official cash rate by a record 1.5 percentage points to 5 percent.