BNZ has lowered its 2015/16 milk price forecast for Fonterra but says it expects dairy prices to recover late this year.

New Zealand has increased its ranking to seventh in a list assessing the reputations of 55 countries. Last year it was eighth.

Gold prices have been weak lately, recently falling below US$1100 ($1516) an ounce for the first time since 2010, writes Mark Lister.

Gold prices have plunged to a five year low, but a local expert says Kiwi investors will hold out until prices lift again.

Disruption is the better, sexier, more efficient and exciting way of doing things that are taken for granted, says Vend chief executive Vaughan Rowsell.

The conventional wisdom is that the recent crash in share prices will not have a big impact on China's economic growth but HSBC's co-head of Asian economic research is not so sure.

Andrew Hrothgar Robinson has been sentenced to six years in jail this morning for stealing more than $3 million.

It's one of our best known retail chains, but for the Mad Butcher, these are challenging times. Christopher Adams investigates.

The Chinese market crash and new rules combine to make investors look further afield.

Reserve Bank may take interest rates to a new record low by October.

Wall Street moved lower overnight as Greek lawmakers prepared to vote on a proposal that would secure its third international bailout.

New Zealand shares rose as investors bought yield stocks such as Meridian Energy and Spark New Zealand, in anticipation of interest rates falling and as global sentiment became more upbeat. Air New....

US retail sales slid 0.3pc in in June, the weakest since February, lowering expectations the Fed will hike interest rates in September.

Kathmandu's new chief executive, French born Xavier Simonet, is already eyeing up global growth for the outdoor clothing and equipment retailer despite its current market struggles.

BP New Zealand generated its smallest earnings in more than a decade due to falling oil prices.

New Zealand shares fell over uncertainty surrounding the future of the Tiwai Point smelter.

Kathmandu's new boss, Xavier Simonet, is not letting a takeover offer distract him as he works to turn around the embattled adventurewear chain.

Auckland's median house price rose a record 26 per cent to $755,000 over the past year.

It's impossible to know where the rout of Chinese stocks will end but there's little doubt its effects will wash over Australia one way or another, says Christopher Niesche.

The head of New Zealand's biggest insulation manufacturer welcomed the Government's decision to require all tenanted properties to have ceiling and underfloor insulation.

Wall St and European shares fell overnight as fears about the Chinese share fire sale and its economic outlook grows.

The NZ-founded carbon recycling company is shifting into commercialisation from its previous development phase.

US faith-based merchants contributed to a 39 per cent boost in the mobile payments app developer's revenues.

NZX says a lack of basic shareholder protections could tarnish the reputation of the country's capital markets.

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