All News

Fonterra units hold up in early trading, despite DCD scare

Fonterra units hold up in early trading, despite DCD scare

By Pattrick Smellie Jan 28 (BusinessDesk) - Fonterra Shareholders Fund units took a small, immediate knock as trading opened on the NZX this morning after a weekend in which international media latched onto the news that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in som...

27 Jan 2013
World Week Ahead US data drop to set the tone

World Week Ahead US data drop to set the tone

By Margreet Dietz Jan 28 (BusinessDesk) – Investors will look to corporate earnings, jobs data and a meeting of US Federal Reserve policy makers for further clues that the world's largest economy is recovering at a stronger-than-anticipated pace. Wall Street closed the week at...

27 Jan 2013


Shearer outlines 'hands-on' policy-making push

Shearer outlines 'hands-on' policy-making push

By Pattrick Smellie Jan 27 (BusinessDesk) - Labour Party leader David Shearer announced no new policy today in a much-hyped 'state of the nation' speech, but outlined a series of policy-making initiatives in 2013 for a new "hands-on" approach, including to "develop a clear plan...

27 Jan 2013