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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...

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...

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...