World Week Ahead: Amazon, GDP, new Fed chair

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...

Pattrick Smellie 22 Oct 2017
Argentina seeks to boost air connections to China through NZ

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...

Pattrick Smellie 13 Oct 2017
NZ First, deciding next NZ government, keeps board membership secret

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...

Pattrick Smellie 11 Oct 2017
NZ First board membership closely guarded ahead of coalition consultations

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...

Pattrick Smellie 10 Oct 2017