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NZ dollar takes big drop in May on slowing QE, RBNZ intervention
By Paul McBeth May 31 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 5.5 percent slide this month as investors rallied behind the greenback in growing anticipation the US Federal Reserve will start unwinding its asset purchase programme, and after the Reserve Bank sign...
CORRECT Xero chair, COO book million-dollar paydays
(Fixes Grigg’s and McLean’s names in 2nd, 3rd and 5th pars) By Paul McBeth May 31 (BusinessDesk) – Xero chairman Sam Knowles and chief operating officer Alastair Grigg cashed in some of their shares, which have more than tripled in price in the past 12 months, after a ‘black-ou...
Transpower sells derivatives trading unit d-cyphaTrade to ASX for A$55 mln
May 31 (BusinessDesk) – Transpower, the state-owned electricity grid company, has sold its d-cyphaTrade unit to Australian stock market operator ASX for A$55 million. Transpower set up d-cyphaTrade in 2002. It promotes Australian exchange-traded electricity futures and then sel...