Auckland cereal-maker is on a sales mission to export Kiwi flavours to Asia.

Floods, hurricanes, droughts - will climate change mean more wild weather ahead? That's a risk the insurance industry is taking very seriously, reports Peter Huck.

CEO designate spills the beans on supermarket giant's ambitions at Food & Grocery Council meeting.

Men could be at the mercy of their hormones.

World markets fell overnight, pulled down by poor economic news and the surprise announcement that the International Energy Agency would release oil from strategic reserves.

The danger in that case would be that, as in the global financial crisis three years ago, everyone in the market starts looking sideways at their counterparts and worrying about how much they might be exposed.

Federal chairman Ben Bernanke has provided investors with little incentive to commit fresh funds to Wall Street as the central bank cut its US economic growth forecast for 2011.

Emotive terms such as 'asset sell-off' are not accurate. Andrew Harmos, NZX chairman.

For an investor, Fonterra warrants close attention..