Madison Reidy

Auckland, New Zealand

Host and Executive Producer, Markets with Madison at New Zealand Media and Entertainment

Host & EP - Markets with Madison. Big fan of business. Subscribe on YouTube: https://t.co/bCstMrEhlf

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Articles

Waiting to fix in ’26 could cost borrowers more - interest rate analyst says

Feb 23, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

JB Drax Honore chief APAC strategist Sean Keane discusses the outlook for rate cuts. Cuts to the Official Cash Rate are set to keep coming, after a hefty 0.5% drop last week, but a rates analyst is warning it may not make debt much cheaper.
NZ must pick a side in US-China AI arms race, Kiwi entrepreneur warns

Feb 20, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

The Kiwi founder of PrimerAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company used in American military intelligence operations, is urging the Government and private investors here to back defence technology companies. That includes anything to do with drones, rockets, aircraft, ships and maritime monitoring – many of which were already being built here, Sean Gourley told Markets with Madison. “A lot of New Zealanders want to remain independent ...
Infratil’s data centre play further increases multibillion-dollar valuation

Feb 17, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

Infratil’s data centre investment is now worth a total A$13.7 billion ($15.18b), up from A$10.2b just two months ago, pricing its almost 50% stake at A$6.85b. The higher revaluation for CDC Data Centres comes on the back of an international capital raise from its three existing investors late last year, where 12% of the business was put on the table. Infratil upped its direct stake by 1.58%, taking its holding to nearly half of CDC, paying A$216 million in a mix of cash and debt.
The untold story of NZ’s only aircraft manufacturer

Feb 16, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

In a 1970s hangar behind Hamilton Airport’s tarmac, a privately-owned company is making utility aircraft by hand to export globally. “We sort of fly under the radar, if I can use that pun, NZAero chief executive Stephen Burrows told Markets with Madison. It makes five types of aircraft almost entirely in-house, from hand-shaping metal parts to the final paint job. “We manufacture everything ourselves.
Behind the biggest private equity deals: AS Colour, Wet & Forget, Bayleys

Feb 13, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

There is more commercial nous in privately-owned businesses than publicly listed companies, according to the head of a major private equity firm. “These private company owners are very savvy business people,” Direct Capital executive chairman Ross George told Markets with Madison.
Markets with Madison: Is the world entering a wartime economy?

Feb 9, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

Investors may be too optimistic about the year ahead given the world is covered in conflict and major economies such as the United States are mobilising, a leading geopolitical adviser warns. “We are seeing wartime economies emerge both in terms of increased military spending, but also changing the way in which their economies perform, behave, where governments allocate money,” Landfall Strategy founding director David Skilling told Markets with Madison from the Netherlands.
Best of Markets with Madison: Energy

Jan 30, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

The energy crisis continues – so what are the solutions? Photo / Christine CornegeEnergy remains one of the most significant challenges for industrial businesses, with the price of power, cost of generation, decline in manufacturing output and shortage of gas all issues yet to be resolved. It hit crisis level in 2024 with a handful of large producers closing their doors – and more threatening to.
Warehouse, Ryman, SkyCity: Best of Markets with Madison’s chairperson interviews

Jan 27, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

Dame Joan Withers discusses how The Warehouse will survive on Markets with Madison. Directors of some of New Zealand’s largest listed businesses have featured on Markets with Madison to discuss the companies they lead from the board table. In the past 12 months, chairmen and chairwomen have been under the spotlight as a handful of high-profile chief executives resigned, some with a nudge from the board.
Z Energy-backed EV supercharging start-up Kwetta fuels $17m investment

Jan 27, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

Kwetta's co-founders (from left) Mike Lazelle, Dustin Murdock and Dr Robert Turner. A 3-year-old start-up making supercharging equipment for electric vehicles has secured US$10.5 million ($17.5m) in investment to fuel its already impressive revenue growth.
Best of Markets with Madison: CEO interviews

Jan 23, 2025 | nzherald.co.nz | Madison Reidy

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell (left) puts the dairy co-operative's whipping cream to the test on Markets with Madison. Photo / Ben DickensExecutives of most of New Zealand’s largest listed businesses have featured on Markets with Madison to explain the state of their industries. While each is faced with their own challenges - Air New Zealand’s aircraft engine issues as an example - they’re also excited about a path of lower rate cuts and how that could spur spending and improve revenue.