Jewellery chain Michael Hill International posted first-half earnings that met its guidance of last month after lifting sales.

Trade Me's stoush with real estate agents over its fee increases for property listings has driven a down-grade from one analyst.

Turners Auctions, which transacts about 10 per cent of the New Zealand used vehicle market, beat its annual profit forecast after widening its scope beyond auction sales.

Cloud-based accounting software developer Xero, has appointed former Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell as its new chairman.

Opus, the engineering firm with one of four mandates to lead design the Christchurch rebuild, reported a 2.6 per cent decline in annual profit.

A small telco is accepting payment by Bitcoin and says it is first company in the industry from New Zealand to accept the digital currency.

Details of how the Government plans to float Genesis Energy could be out by the end of next month, but fund managers say it will need to be heavily discounted.

The outcome of this year's election is still a major unknown but one analyst has already started factoring it into his recommendations for the energy sector.

Greens-Labour policy biggest of sector's issues and MRP hurting most, says broker.

Cashed up with more than $10 million in fresh capital, Auckland software firm Wherescape is in expansion mode and considering listing on the NZX.

Euribor-EBF has chosen New Zealand's Global Rate Set Systems to collect, process and distribute its financial benchmarks from May.

Meridian Energy sold more electricity in the first six months of the current financial year than in the previous year, but prices achieved were significantly lower.

Michael Hill International expects first-half earnings to rise after reporting a 10 per cent lift in sales over the period.

Labour is looking at the Norwegian model for regulating the oil and gas industry, including stronger environmental safeguards and steeper taxes.

Shares in Fisher & Paykel Healthcare are near a seven-year high as it continued an 18-month trend of "winning back favour" with investors, according to an analyst.

Shares of Melbourne based mining group OceanaGold has risen 9.7 per cent in early NZX trading after announcing its gold production exceeded expectations in 2013.

Moody's has cut Chorus's credit rating to the bottom of its investment grade band over the prospect of enforced copper price cuts.

Wynyard Group has signed a global partnership deal with UK-based Arquebus Solutions to deliver gun crime intelligence software for the law enforcement market.

NZX minnows Vetilot and NZF Group have been fined and censured over the late filings of their respective annual reports.

Big international oil and gas recruitment company Air Energi is moving into New Zealand in what is being described as a vote of confidence in the sector here.

Revelations that a "worst-case" oil well blowout in New Zealand waters could take five weeks to plug.