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Editorial: Calls to focus on exchange rate should be ignored

Times are very tough in manufacturing. The global recession has merely contributed an additional woe to a sector whose share of economic activity has been declining for more than two decades.

Manufacturers threaten to quit NZ

More leading export companies are on the verge of moving overseas due to the high dollar, Opposition MPs were told yesterday by manufacturers.

John Armstrong: Inquiry exposes Govt vulnerability on exchange rate

A lot of exporters of manufactured products had been waiting for an opportunity to vent anguish over the high exchange rate, writes John Armstrong. The targets of the anger - John Key, the Reserve Bank, Steven Joyce and the Treasury - were absent.

Chinese data boosts NZ shares

Production barely expands

The manufacturing sector ended 2012 much as it had spent the whole year, just barely on the right side of the line between expansion and contraction, the BNZ-Business New Zealand performance of manufacturing index (PMI) indicates.

Manufacturing ends 2012 subdued

Bryan Gould: Crisis in manufacturing goes unheeded

An uncompetitive economy like ours becomes more and more dependent on those fewer and fewer sectors that can compete in international terms, writes Bryan Gould.

Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese eager to milk brand NZ

NZ Steel profit slumps 26.7pc

Lightbulb firm's loss increases

Timber workers wait to hear their fate

Rotorua timber industry worker Daniel Mathew is philosophical about the possibility of losing his job.

Construction growth may be key

Manufactured exports have been faring much better than domestic sales.

NZ manufacturing 'in crisis'

Carter Holt Harvey has told staff it plans to cut around 70 jobs in Rotorua and Tokoroa before Christmas.

Union challenge fails over Air NZ job cuts

NZ services sector expands at cracking pace

New Zealand's services sector grew at its fastest recorded pace last month as sales activity rallied, ending a recent horror run of data.

Cavalier hit by slow start

Cloud over dairy exporters

Signs of life in NZ manufacturing?