DNZ Property Fund posted an 8.7 per cent drop in annual profit after writing down the value of development work

China has signed a long-awaited deal for Russian natural gas, giving China a new energy source and Russia a diplomatic boost.

China is stockpiling oil for its strategic petroleum reserve at a record pace, intervening on a scale large enough to send a powerful pulse through the world crude market.

Abano Healthcare says full-year profit will rise at least 60 percent and has urged shareholders to support chairman Trevor Janes at a special meeting that seeks to have him dumped.

Argosy Property more than doubled annual profit as new buildings generated more income and the value of its portfolio gained.

A turnaround in the fortunes of the council-owned Ports of Auckland has helped explode the myth that companies need to be listed on the NZX in order to perform.

Abano Healthcare anticipates its Australian and Asian audiology joint venture will start making a positive contribution to earnings in the next financial year.

Abano Healthcare's long-running dispute with two rebel shareholders has been a distraction for its board .

Auckland Airport has forecast annual international visitor growth that could be worth $19 billion to the tourism industry by 2025.

BurgerFuel has opened its first store in Egypt, a new front in the fast-growing Kiwi food brand's Middle East expansion.

Auckland International Airport plans to sell $150 million of seven-year bonds that will trade on the NZX, completing the long-term debt funding of last month's capital return.

A hopelessly one-sided conflict will be renewed in Ruakaka, Northland, on Thursday.

For Nestle, life at the top of the $81 billion coffee market just got more difficult.

The NZX will catch up with its counterparts around the world when it launches equity derivatives next month. The exchange operator will offer index futures contracts, which will trade off the NZX20, from June 16.

Some of Twitter's biggest investors are hanging on to their shares, even as restrictions on selling the shares are set to lift.

NZX listing candidate and software company Gentrack said it had appointed Graham Shaw and Andy Coupe as independent directors.

The country's next batch of aspiring entrepreneurs have been given a crash course on the realities of business in Auckland this week.

Cheniere Energy's Charif Souki emerged as the highest paid US executive in 2013, receiving $142 million.

Shares in Xero climbed 11 percent after the accounting software developer said it slowed the pace of cash outflow in the first three months of the year.

Make way, bitcoin: A competing digital currency, litecoin, is angling for the spotlight.

Last week, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell was visiting Putin's residence, saying, "We are very keen to grow our position in the Russian Federation."

In the conservative world of company boardrooms, the notion of directors signing up to Twitter and having followers is contrary to their traditional role.

Abano is mulling the extraordinary meeting request from rebel shareholders who want to dump Trevor Janes as chairman and refresh the board.