Sharper day-to-day movements will be unnerving for some investors.

In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.

First-home buyers looking to make the next step up the ladder could struggle - despite making huge gains in value on their property.

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.

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.

US stocks took a breather after last week's records, ending a volatile few days in the red as some investors snapped up profits before the third quarter closes.

Liam Dann offers up five reasons for economic gloom and five reasons for cheer.

'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.

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.

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.

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.