
World Week Ahead: Amazon, GDP, new Fed chair
By Margreet Dietz Oct 23 (BusinessDesk) - A slew of US corporate earnings including from Amazon and a report on the country’s third-quarter gross domestic product will set the tone this week, while some expect the European Central Bank to announce a tapering of its asset purch...

Argentina seeks to boost air connections to China through NZ
By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 13 (BusinessDesk) - Argentina's new, reformist government is seeking to accelerate the growth of Asian tourism to South America via New Zealand and Australia in what its visiting deputy tourism minister, Ramiro Alem, describes as a "look south" strateg...

NZ First, deciding next NZ government, keeps board membership secret
By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Two days after undertaking to release a list of the board of the New Zealand First party board, its president Brent Catchpole has changed his mind. Several members of a group that leader Winston Peters says will be consulted tomo...

NZ First board membership closely guarded ahead of coalition consultations
By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 10 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand First party president Brent Catchpole has reluctantly agreed to make public the membership of the party's board of directors, who leader Winston Peters has said will be consulted before any government formation proposal...