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![Services sector kick start outlined](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Services sector kick start outlined
Productivity Commission extols more competition and adopting cloud computing.
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Cooling NZ dollar not forecast to crash
Weaker dairy prices have acted to drive the NZ dollar lower over the last few months, but currency strategists don't expect the kiwi to go into freefall.
![Brian Fallow: Carbon tax policy classic Greens](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Brian Fallow: Carbon tax policy classic Greens
The Greens are open to negotiating offsetting subsidies to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed firms whose survival might be threatened by their proposed carbon tax.
![Liam Dann: Don't let bad apples ruin new boom](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Liam Dann: Don't let bad apples ruin new boom
Reports that companies are being turned away and told they are not ready for market listing are heartening, writes Liam Dann. Certainly there is no upside for investment banks in being associated with a turkey of a float.
![Tale of two cities: $1m v $71k](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Tale of two cities: $1m v $71k
A two-bedroom home with its original 1950s bathroom and kitchen and not in one of Auckland's hottest suburbs has sold for $1.08 million.
![Brian Fallow: Anti-rort law hits forest good guys](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Brian Fallow: Anti-rort law hits forest good guys
Under its equivalent of the cover of darkness Parliament has legislated to stop a rort by a subset of a subset of participants in the emissions trading scheme.
![Confidence still high despite fall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Confidence still high despite fall
Business confidence has declined for the third month in a row, ANZ's Business Outlook survey has found, though optimists still outnumber pessimists nearly 10 to one
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Fonterra's milk price to fall
Signs of normality returned to the dairy sector yesterday when Fonterra forecast a $7 a kg farmgate milk price for 2014-15.
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Business confidence drops 9 per cent
New Zealand business confidence extended its slide from a record high to a third month, in the face of rising interest rates, declining dairy prices and a persistently high kiwi dollar.
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Fonterra sets $7.00 seasonal milk price
Fonterra has set an opening milk price of $7.00 per kg of milksolids for the 2014/15 season and revised down its forecast for the current season.