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Coffee drinkers embrace fair factor
It's easier to assuage your conscience with a Fairtrade latte than spend time contemplating the problems facing impoverished farmers.
![Telecom nets $75m for AAPT sale](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Telecom nets $75m for AAPT sale
Telecom has finally rid itself of its struggling Australian retail business, confirming it sold the consumer division of its AAPT unit for A$60 million to iiNet Ltd.
![Telecom in trading halt as AAPT sale looms](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Telecom in trading halt as AAPT sale looms
Shares in Telecom have been put into a halt amid expectations of an announcement on the sale of its Australian unit AAPT.
![Tin hats off to shareholders' hero](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Tin hats off to shareholders' hero
Activist Bruce Sheppard has stepped down as chairman of the Shareholders Association, after more than nine years with the organisation.
![<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Hitting the brick wall of too much debt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Hitting the brick wall of too much debt
This makes the decision about choosing to fix or float that little bit tougher.
![Bollard lifts OCR, future hikes likely to be less](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Bollard lifts OCR, future hikes likely to be less
While increasing the OCR this morning, Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard has indicated that future hikes won't be as aggressive as earlier tipped.
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NZ dollar tumbles despite interest rates hike
The NZ dollar has tumbled this morning, after Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard signalled that future interest rate rises will be more modest than earlier indicated.
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<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Bollard still expects 'respectable' growth
Bollard's statement carried a thinly veiled warning about the consequences of passing on GST increases.
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NZ dollar jumps to six-month high
The NZ dollar climbed to a six-month high as a surge in new home sales in the US stoked investors' appetite for higher-yielding, or riskier, assets.
![<i>Bernard Hickey - </i> Reserve Bank should target the housing bubble](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
<i>Bernard Hickey - </i> Reserve Bank should target the housing bubble
It's clear the economy has become dependent on the debt growth fuelled by the housing market's ever-increasing values.