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![Dairy woes buffer debt slide](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Dairy woes buffer debt slide
Foreign claims on the economy exceed New Zealand investment abroad by $152 billion.
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NZ insulated from Russian fallout
Russia's currency crisis has added risk to world markets, but the New Zealand economy is likely to be spared direct impact, analysts say.
![Russian crisis: Why it matters](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Russian crisis: Why it matters
Russia's ruble was tanking on Tuesday faster than journalists could type, hitting levels against the dollar that were unimaginable even a week ago.
![Dairy prices improve at latest auction](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Dairy prices improve at latest auction
Dairy prices mostly improved at this morning’s GlobalDairyTrade auction, the GDT price index gaining 2.4 per cent.
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Govt spending cuts key to surplus
The Government's widely touted return to surplus is likely to take a further 12 months and is largely reliant on cuts to spending.
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No surplus this year - Treasury
Opposition parties say new Treasury forecasts that the Crown's books will not return to surplus this year as promised by the Government are an embarrassment.
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Economic growth expected to hit high
Economic growth is expected to average a historically high annual rate of 2.8 per cent over the next five years.
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Growth in services slows down
The services sector slowed in November while remaining in expansion, adding to evidence the economy is adjusting to a more moderate pace of growth.
![Peter Lyons: Bet the house on city's weatherboard economics](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Peter Lyons: Bet the house on city's weatherboard economics
Our political leaders have shown how resolute they can be by ignoring calls from the narrow-minded and selfish to deny outsiders access to our El Dorado, writes Peter Lyons.
![Brian Fallow: Lima's main gain - We're all in it together](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Brian Fallow: Lima's main gain - We're all in it together
At least the global climate change conference at Lima was not a train wreck, like Copenhagen five years ago.
![Liam Dann: Oil-price plunge rattling markets](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Liam Dann: Oil-price plunge rattling markets
The dynamic of the new oil shock is moving fast - maybe too fast for the fragile global economic recovery, writes Liam Dann.
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Investors must demand better governance
Institutional shareholders need to place more focus on demanding quality corporate governance from firms they have investments in, says FMA chief executive Rob Everett.
![Items lost as mover folds](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Items lost as mover folds
A Hamilton family has lost valuable belongings after an international moving company hit the wall.
![Farmer body backs Fonterra milk plan](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Farmer body backs Fonterra milk plan
The Fonterra Shareholders Council is "broadly supportive" of plans for the co-operative to start sourcing milk from South Island suppliers who are not also shareholders.
![Editorial: Tricky China request needs one proviso](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Editorial: Tricky China request needs one proviso
In his first speech as the leader of China, President Xi Jinping identified corruption as a major priority.
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Strong start to Christmas spending
Christmas spending is off to a strong start with, up 4.4 per cent on the same time last year.
![Bulldozers lurk for Earls Court](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Bulldozers lurk for Earls Court
It has housed the world's largest water chute, welcomed the Empire of India exhibition and hosted David Bowie and the most disastrous concert of his career.
![Cheap oil will 'destroy' green revolution](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Cheap oil will 'destroy' green revolution
The collapsing oil price that is reshaping the global economy could derail the green energy revolution by making renewable power sources prohibitively bad value.
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Consumer confidence bounces back
Consumers are feeling more cheerful going into the peak Christmas trading period, the ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence survey has found.