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Caption:In a post on social media, Peters said the Reserve Bank had no role in US politics and should not involve itself.Photo credit:RNZ
Jerome Powell and Dr Anna Breman
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2024. The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction since the pandemic, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November’s presidential election. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, on April 7, 2025. Wall Street stocks opened sharply lower Monday, joining a global selloff on worries that a trade war induced by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs will spark a global economic slowdown. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable event to discuss aid for farmers, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 8, 2025.
Donald Trump and Jerome Powell
Tiltshift effect of prescription bottle for Oxycodone tablets and pills on wooden table for opioid epidemic illustration
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Māui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders spokesperson, Christine Rose and Minister Shane Jones.
Wellington mayor Andrew Little.
Coogee Beach shark attack victim Leah Stewart with her daughter before the June 2026 shark attack
Richard Chambers
Juan Manuel Leon Sandoval’s case was heard in the Hamilton District Court.
A soldier looks through binoculars during combat exercises and training of the navy of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the waters around the Taiwan Island, 5 August, 2022. T