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COMMENT: The departure hits local banking at a time when tensions were already high.
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Liam Dann: Oil price slump points to relief at the pump
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Mainfreight staff share $27m bonus after record result
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Liam Dann: Trump playing global market like a yo-yo
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Productivity rise underpins Wellbeing initiatives
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Good progress in capital markets review: Stearne
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Legal experts: Government needs to be bold to reinvigorate market
Changes are needed in regulation and market practice to reinvigorate NZ capital markets.
New data: Another sign NZ is heading for an economic slowdown
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Editorial: Takeover flurry raises questions about state of capital markets
EDITORIAL: Is the takeover flurry by overseas buyers an alarming trend or natural cycle?
NZ shares fall as China hits back in trade war
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John Roughan: Reserve Bank plays it wrong under new set-up
COMMENT: Committees so often make inconsistent, confusing and downright wrong decisions.
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Liam Dann: CGT backdown will deliver timely business boost
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Biggest losers of the Auckland property market
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NZ's 'unicorns' create $34b value
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Why argument of CGT fairness is based on unreliable data
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Continuous Disclosure: Activist shareholder ramps up criticsm of NZX, UBS lifts profit
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Aussie house prices keep sliding
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Kiwis back a capital gains tax, just not for themselves
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Are lower interest rates good news or bad?
COMMENT: Interest rates look like being lower for longer, but should we cheer this?
RBNZ expected to hold rate, but long term direction less clear
The Reserve Bank is expected to keep its OCR on hold at 1.75 pct.
Kiwi dollar ends week on stronger note
The kiwi got a lift when the Fed held interest rates steady.
Brian Fallow: Why low rates don't mean we should borrow more
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