John Key said New Zealand would use the opportunity at the G20 to talk to some of the leaders he hadn’t had an opportunity to talk to at recent APEC or East Asian Summit gatherings.  He singled out Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz as New Zealand seeks to progress the Gulf states free trade agreement and the European Commission …

New Zealand inflation, which unexpectedly fell to the bottom of the Reserve Bank’s target band in the third quarter, is likely to pick up again as pressures emerge in the labour market, Finance Minister Bill English said.  Economists have pushed out their expectations for New Zealand interest rate hikes after a report last month showed consumer prices rose at an annual rate of …