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Formula exporters race for deadline
The Government announced last week that 12 of this country's 13 baby milk manufacturers had to carry out changes at their production facilities.
Confidence drops among Aussie small firms: report
Business confidence among small and medium-sized Australian firms is waning despite business conditions rising to a four-year high.
Too qualified to live in New Zealand
An Indian national with a master's degree was declined an opportunity to apply for residence as a skilled migrant, despite being more qualified than was required.
Andrew Watters: Dairy farm prices in tune with earnings
Home owners, sitting on a near tripling of house prices over the past 20 years, are largely immune to warnings that the housing market is overheated.
Liam Dann: Corporate musical chairs begins again
Do you care who made your butter and toast this morning? Do you care who made the packet the butter was wrapped in? Probably not.
Goodman bid tip of merger iceberg
Singapore's Wilmar International and Hong Kong's First Pacific have launched a A$1.27 billion ($1.38 billion) joint takeover bid for Australasian food group Goodman Fielder.
Wall St up as drug deals bolster sentiment
A raft of merger and acquisition activity in the global drug sector helped underpin equities on both sides of the Atlantic
Experts back OCR increase
There is near-unanimous support on NZIER's shadow board for Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler to raise the official cash rate again tomorrow, to 3 per cent.
Kiwi cafe firm targets America
Cooks Global Foods, the New Zealand franchisor of the Esquires cafe chain in markets outside Australasia, is poised for North American expansion.
Interest rate peak poses big risk
Interest rates could peak at a level which would see first-home buyers in Auckland spending two-thirds of household income paying the mortgage.
Reserve Bank may have rethink
Another rise in the official cash rate, to 3 per cent, on Thursday is seen as a virtual certainty.
Eric Watson: Plenty of cash for new firms
According to the NZX, there is a gap in our capital markets infrastructure that hampers small and mid-sized companies' abilities to raise capital.
Genesis shares end first day up 17pc
Shares in Genesis Energy closed up 26c to $1.81 after the first day of trading.
Stockmarket joins global rally
NZ stocks joined a global rally yesterday as US company earnings growth lifted sentiment for equity markets.
Pacific Edge leads NZ stocks
NZ Stocks rose led by Pacific Edge as investors re-evaluate prices of tech stocks after the recent a sell-off in the sector worldwide.
Tech shares walloped
New Zealand technology shares have taken another pummelling as investors around the globe continue to re-evaluate growth-oriented stocks in a sell-off a local market player.
NZ shares followed Wall Street lower
New Zealand shares followed Wall Street lower as investors question whether tech and high-growth companies can deliver the earnings growth implied by their valuations. Pacific Edge led the NZX 50 Index lower, while Xero and Diligent Board Member Services
Liam Dann: Tech wreck fears rise
The United States tech sector has taken a hammering and investor sentiment has turned against so-called "growth" stocks, writes Liam Dann.