Comment: PGF is a good idea for New Zealand — too good to be botched by poor execution.

The signs are that methane from livestock will be treated differently to CO2 emissions.

Consensus is building behind planned Zero Carbon Act to combat climate change.

Setting goals, removing politics — Zero Carbon Bill is like the Reserve Bank Act.

Planned law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have widespread economic impact.

COMMENT: In fighting emissions, should agriculture get a better deal than others?

COMMENT: Labour and the Greens offer different ways to put a price on carbon.

COMMENT: Latest announcement provides little clarity for the environment or for business.

Emissions trading scheme isn't fit for purpose.

COMMENT: One in six people aged 65-plus don't own their home, and that's likely to rise.

COMMENT: Report points to a big change in the way we use the land.

COMMENT: Donald Trump evidently has a primitive view of international commerce.

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: Treasury's newly updated projections for the long-run outlook look OK for a few years, but then it gets ugly.

COMMENT: Taking Donald Trump at his word, his election heralds a trade war, a recession, and a setback for climate change efforts.

COMMENT: We've promised to cut carbon emissions, but all the options face problems.

COMMENT: The Reserve Bank has some explaining to do.

COMMENT: Low interest rates make even big home loans affordable - at least for now.

COMMENT: Ex-Minister suggests new way to tackle emissions.

COMMENT: There is little NZ can do about high dollar or inflation.

COMMENT: Looking beyond dairy, the picture is one of faltering growth in world trade volumes and mounting protectionism.

The retreat in export commodity prices turned into a rout last month. ANZ's commodity price index fell 11.2 per cent, its steepest monthly decline, to a six-year low.

Should we be dismayed or relieved at the disarray the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations are in? Sorry, but on the information to hand it is impossible to say.

A key industry is suffering, but other economic signs paint a happier picture, writes Brian Fallow.

Business confidence has fallen to a three-year low, led by regions like Waikato, Canterbury and Southland particularly exposed to the dairy sector.

A second interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank next month is now a done deal and a third is increasingly on the cards before the year is out.

New Zealand earned $8.6 billion less from the rest of the world through trade and investment in the year to March than the rest of the world earned from us.

Economists expect the pace of economic growth to have slowed when the March quarter national accounts are released on Thursday.

A slump in dairy exports weighed on the trade balance last month.

Tumbling dairy prices dragged ANZ's commodity price index 7.4 per cent lower last month and a stronger New Zealand dollar amplified the decline.

Economists expect some easing in the pace of economic growth when the December quarter national accounts are published on Thursday.

New Zealand's export dollar does not stretch as far as it did, after the terms of trade fell 1.9 per cent in the last three months of 2014.

New Zealand's trade accounts were in the red for the sixth month in a row in December, imports exceeding exports by $159 million or 3.6 per cent.

Foreign claims on the economy exceed New Zealand investment abroad by $152 billion.

The Reserve Bank still sees interest rate increases in our future, but fewer and further away than it thought three months ago.

A Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement could boost New Zealand's agricultural exports to the other partner countries by up to 13 per cent by 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture....

ANZ's commodity price index fell for the ninth month in a row in November, as milk powder prices hit five-year lows.

Falling dairy prices have begun to undermine one of the foundations of the economic upswing, rising national income from the most favourable terms of trade.

Business sentiment is somewhere between healthy and stellar, says ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie.

World prices for a basket of New Zealand's export commodities fell 1.3 per cent last month, with dairy products once more leading the decline.

The New Zealand dollar dropped against the greenback yesterday afternoon after the Reserve Bank released data which confirmed that it had put its money where its mouth was last month, selling $521 million in a bid to push the exchange rate lower.

June provided further evidence that the terms of trade is headed south, albeit from the most favourable levels in 40 years.

Graeme Wheeler pointedly reminded us of his power to intervene if the kiwi dollar continues to climb while export commodity prices fall, writes Brian Fallow.

Surging dairy exports to China have pushed the annual trade balance into surplus for the first time in nearly two years.

Business confidence remains high in ANZ's latest monthly survey.

If we want the dairy industry to lift national income we will have to pay the price in terms of increasing degradation of rivers and other water bodies, says Brian Fallow.

Alan Bollard picks shift to model where US consumer may not be the final driver for the Pacific Rim region.

More than 80,000 cans of suspect infant formula have been recalled in Hong Kong and a hotline set up by the city's authorities has been fielding hundreds of calls.

Led by dairy products, prices for export commodities surged last month - and this time the rise in world prices was not eaten up by a higher exchange rate.

The drought is a timely reminder of how much the New Zealand economy depends on rainfall, writes Brian Fallow.

Drought is likely to shave 0.5 per cent off gross domestic product by the end of the year and take a toll on next year's output as well, says ANZ bank.

Exports fell in the last three months of 2012 in real terms and the impact has been compounded by a decline in what we can buy, by way of imports, for a given quantity of exports.

The terms of trade fell for the fifth straight quarter in September, to be nearly 10 per cent off the peak in mid-2011.