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Australian law passes to end live sheep exports by sea

Australia to outlaw live sheep exports by sea.

Company insolvencies and liquidations up, 474,000 people now behind on payments

More people falling behind on their mortgage and credit card payments.

Property Insider: Insolvent modular apartment-builder owes $51.7m

A modular housing project has a big financial fallout, liquidators picking up the pieces.

Is a regulated structure still right for today's $4b kiwifruit export industry?

Critical mass and scale saves the sector's bacon time and time again.

Legal claim launched alleging defects in New Lynn's Merchant Quarter: no hearing yet

Statement of claim lodged, no date has yet been set for a hearing in court.

Market close: Energy stocks help boost sharemarket

Meridian Energy, Mercury and Contact all had share price rises.

Tiwai deal opens door for new power projects

Contact Energy has started its first battery project and says more will follow.

Self-driving e-scooter service Ario launching in West Auckland

Three-wheelers can be remote-controlled.

Fletcher Building does Starlink. Lots of Starlink

Firm finds four scenarios where Elon Musk's broadband from the skies is the best option.

Will cash-strapped Synlait Milk survive?

As a vital shareholder meeting approaches, China's Bright Dairy says Synlait can survive.

KiwiSaver’s legal fishhooks to watch out for

OPINION: Many people are disadvantaged by the rules for the retirement saving scheme.

Buffett ditches Gates; vast wealth to be donated to new foundation upon death

Financial Times: Billionaire investor ends nearly two decades of gifts to Gates Foundaton.

‘We didn’t have any food in the house’: NZ's highest paid female exec on childhood trials

ASB chief Vittoria Shortt talks to Liam Dann about her banking journey.

Just five stocks power US markets to big gain

Financial Times: Some investors worried a few ‘megacap’ tech companies too influential.

Kiwibank predicts 'significant' interest rate cuts

Economists say for most of us it's a matter of holding on.

Revealed: NZ's highest-paid company directors

Some professional directors collect more than $500,000 in annual fees.