FMA warns potential property investors with no income to 'eat and run' at seminars...

Halloween is likely to be a lot less spooky than it appeared to be mere days ago with October set to close as the best performing month for Wall Street in decades.

Something's happening here, as the 60s song goes, but what that might be is harder to pin down.

Shares soared in Europe overnight and are well up on Wall St after European leaders agreed on a Greek debt deal.

As the Trade Me float draws nearer, fund managers are being asked about demand for the shares, which may raise $300 million.

The FMA has already been fairly active, rummaging through client files of financial advisory offices throughout the country.

The New Zealand dollar fell nearly one US cent overnight.

New Zealand is set to complete its free trade triumvirate with Greater China when it adds Chinese Taipei to this country's earlier deals with Beijing and Hong Kong.