Felix Salmon takes a hard look at Michael Lewis’ latest book 'Flash Boys'.

Xero boss Rod Drury says the company's $210m of cash means it can ignore mounting concerns over tech stocks and continue to "drive its business".

The fog was just beginning to lift on the Houston Ship Channel on March 22 as a bulk carrier and a fuel barge found themselves on a crash course.

A twice-bankrupted businessman may have to return from Ireland to serve a sentence of home detention if a Crown appeal is successful.

The Justice Department is investigating whether traders using ultra-fast computer algorithms are violating insider-trading laws.

In 1945 Jan Arps published a formula, which has become one of the most widely used measures, to predict how much crude oil a well will produce.

New Zealand's first Bitcoin ATMs have been unveiled - but they won't be in one place and you can't get cash out of them.

Cloud software firm Xero has joined forces with giant KPMG to provide accounting and tax services to SMEs in the United Kingdom.

The Shareholders Association has warned investors to be wary of the market speculation surrounding TRS Investments - the company which this week announced it would merge with Kim Dotcom's Mega in a $210 million deal.

Kiwis who accepted low-ball share offers sold their investments at $290,000 below market value in the year to February, despite rules aiming to limit the practice.

The technology company started by Kim Dotcom is heading for the New Zealand sharemarket with a valuation of $210 million.

One of the main shareholders of the company Mega plans to use to achieve a $210m listing on the NZ stock exchange is facing market manipulation charges in Australia.

Mega, the online storage company set up by Kim Dotcom is to list on the NZX. Herald stock market specialist Tamsyn Parker offers some insights on stock exchange back-door listings.

A listed property business with $350 million of real estate is growing into a business managing $1.2 billion of property through a deal

Fund manager Salt has used a slump in Pumpkin Patch's share price to snap up more shares in the stock.

An agreement to allow direct trading of the NZ dollar with China's renminbi is more political than practical and won't save businesses much money, according to one currency expert.

Feltex Carpets' former director Peter Thomas likened the firm's 2004 float to a lemon from which most of the juice had been squeezed out, according to an email.

New Zealand's economic ties with China have been strengthened with a deal to allow direct trading of the New Zealand dollar against the Chinese currency the renminbi or yuan.

Pacific Edge has had a rollercoaster of a ride this week after receiving a please explain notice from the stock exchange about its recent share price decline and then an index notice to....

The strife between Russia and the Ukraine has resulted in a tough week for European stock markets but the NZ bourse has taken no notice of the situation and hit new highs, writes Tamsyn Parker.

Many large players pitched for the Kiwi waste business, but Beijing Capital rolled in with a $950 million cheque, and the deal was done, writes Dita De Boni.

Shares in Xero have hit another new high today after an announcement that the tech company will be included in a global index for the first time.

Rakon has been censured and fined for breaching NZX disclosure rules after news broke in China about a new purchase in July last year.