The dairy industry has been a star performer for decades, but the time has come for others in the New Zealand family of commodities to share the limelight...

Stocks in Europe and the US rallied overnight, with a big jump in US housing starts, good German business confidence and a healthy appetite for Spanish debt.

Worries over the fate of the euro and the EU's member states continue to drag on the single currency and equities in Europe and on Wall Street.

Consumer confidence in New Zealand tumbled in the fourth quarter to the lowest level since the depths of recession in 2009.

Running Australia's biggest bank made Ralph Norris the country's best-paid chief executive and, at times, its most-hated, too. Now, he tells Karyn Scherer, he's looking forward.

The new Productivity Commission says land needs to be freed up to allow more homes to be built for first-home buyers.

Dairy giant Fonterra has unveiled a pilot scheme to put free milk into Northland primary schools.

Insurance Australia Group has agreed to buy AMI, for $380 million in a deal that will see the target's liabilities transferred to a new state-owned company.