The NZ stock market has this year seen IPO's by power companies, tech frims, agriculture companies and now a major media company - potentially.

The business community has, until now, been watching the Dirty Politics scandals play out with bemusement and a certain degree of detachment.

We're eating more fresh fruit and vegetables, visiting supermarkets more often, spending more and seeking more self-service checkouts, says a supermarket boss.

An original-condition two-bedroom Blockhouse Bay home has stunned its vendor and agent by selling at auction for well over twice its valuation.

NZX, the stock market operator, has revealed its new market with lighter disclosure requirements will be called NXT.

Falling prices for dairy and forest product exports drove the trade balance into the red last month.

In the latest Herald series on election policies, we look at whether parties are paying attention to voter's worries about land sales to overseas buyers.

A buyer keen on Hobsonville Pt's smallest of three new prototype houses couldn't close the purchase, partly because of financial barriers and the tiny size of the house.

One of the big myths about KiwiSaver is that the money is held by the government, writes Helen Twose.

Viewed from the vantage point of Standard & Poor's global chief economist the world economy does not seem too inhospitable a place right now, but not without risks either.

The New Zealand dollar took a sudden and unexplained dip in early trading yesterday, fuelling speculation that the Reserve Bank may have chosen to exploit thin trading conditions.

With the economy performing well on most other fronts the residential property market remains its major defect.

The Financial Markets Authority has contacted stock exchange operator NZX after share traders potentially gained an unfair advantage from price-sensitive information published.

Peter Lyons writes: It is important that the team in charge of the economy is paddling in the right direction.

New Zealand's first crowdfunded capital raising has been completed with craft beer company Renaissance Brewing yesterday reaching its target of $700,000.

Some homeowners will be hoping for massive capital gains and others fearing the sharp end of spiralling rates bills as Auckland's property market soars.

Export demand for New Zealand craft beer is expected to triple over the next decade as Asian consumers develop a taste for boutique brews.

Export log prices have stabilised and are improving a little, despite conditions in the country's biggest market, China, remaining difficult.

Corporate travel specialist Carlson Wagonlit Travel forecasts modest airfare growth from and around New Zealand next year.

NZX-listed Scales Corp says its subsidiary Polarcold will build a new cold store at Ports of Auckland's intermodal freight facility at Wiri.

A combination of unfavourable weather, heavy discounting and continued growth in online sales is behind yet another fall in profit for fashion retailer Hallenstein Glasson

New Zealand's biggest NZX-listed business is forecast to declare a $355 million to $366 million normalised annual net profit after tax tomorrow, up on last year's $326 million.