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NZ stocks start week on positive note

For sale: The Kiwi farm

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

NZ dollar posts modest gains, closes at US77c

The $47 billion rural hangover

Think it's all good down on the farm? Think again. Property values are plunging, and the crisis could yet hit the cities too, reports Karyn Scherer.

Petricevic trust wins $30,000 costs fight

Strategic Finance receiver questions transactions

Banking stock debuts cautiously in positive market

Aussie market hits nine month high

Miners, banks trade higher

The Australian stock market ended the day yesterday on a high, as resource and financial stocks both rallied.

BHP Billiton offsets falls

SCF owed $103m by parent company

Five Star duo first directors to face prison

NZ dollar strengthens further against US dollar

Five Star director says sorry to investors

Former Five Star director Anthony Bowden says he is genuinely sorry about the distress caused to investors following the collapse of the company..

Five Star director Bowden avoids jail

Five Star Finance director Anthony Bowden has been sentenced on Securities Act charges in the Auckland District Court today.

Five Star directors in jail for Xmas

Five Star Finance directors Nicholas Kirk and Marcus MacDonald have both been sent to jail for more than two years. They are believed to be the first directors of collapsed finance companies to go to jail.