NZ has a "rock star economy" and surveys reveal high levels of business confidence, but what could make the economy run out of puff? Peter Lyons looks at the issue.

Fonterra has confirmed Sri Lankan officials have suspended the sale of some Anchor milk powder, amid concerns it has made children sick.

Liam Dann writes: Get ready for an influx of bargain-hunting foreign investors, because as the dollar drops, NZ assets are effectively going on special.

ANZ's chief executive David Hisco's $4.1 million pay packet got a few Kiwis hot under the collar this week. But how 'bout we compare our bosses with the US?

The NZ dollar edged up following its dramatic slump yesterday after the Reserve Bank confirmed speculation it intervened in the currency market.

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.

70c, here we come? This could be it. The time when some weakness creeps into the NZ dollar, and it actually stays down.

It's a potential health hazard that comes complete with rotting floorboards, nicotine-caked walls and the worst bathroom the agent's ever seen: Auckland's $1m hovel.

'Tesco is like a wounded animal: we never know what it is going to do next," is how one battered food supplier describes its relationship with the UK's biggest retailer.

The British govt plans to criminalise the manipulation of more benchmarks to revive confidence in the integrity of London as a financial centre.

The New Zealand dollar could fall significantly over the next six to nine months and the Reserve Bank would welcome that, says Governor Graeme Wheeler.

New Zealand's financial regulator is probing two possible cases of insider trading and market manipulation, after receiving 15 complaints about such behaviour in the past year.

APN, the company which owns the New Zealand Herald, is to relaunch as part of a new brand, NZME.

Five years after the worst of the financial crisis, subprime loans are creeping back, this time primarily in the form of US auto loans.

Five things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.

The Herald-DigiPoll survey came closest to predicting the final election result, an analysis of the four major polls shows.

New Zealand financial markets are expected to firm when they open today after the National Party secured the first ever outright win.

Liam dann writes: If New Zealand is "on the cusp" of something exciting, as John Key has promised, then it is on the economy which we should now be expecting him to deliver.

Investors in listed power companies appear to be betting the National Party will retain the government benches at Saturday's general election.

All Blacks including Dan Carter and Richie McCaw could receive a windfall from a proposed mega-merger of 19 privately-owned retirement villages.