Up until Tuesday night, it was widely expected that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) would lift the OCR from 0.25% to at least 0.50%, with several commentators posing the prospect a 50bps hike. Read more

Ten or even five years ago, the idea of working alongside and interacting with artificial intelligence on a daily basis would have been put in the same vein as flying cars and time travel. Now, Cognitive and Ai technologies aren't impossibilities or far in the future – they’re already here