David Parker today launched public consultation on the new Overseas Investment Act reforms

The dairy giant releases its half-year result tomorrow.

Market news and opinion.

The markets are nervous as Italy descends deeper into uncertainty.

SeaDragon posted a first-half loss of $2.7 million earlier this year.

NZ shares are poised for a weaker open.

Bitcoin futures investors are set to suffer losses as cryptocurrency fever fades

Farming is totally unrepresented on the NZX making access difficult for most Kiwis.

Kiwi fund managers are embracing responsible investing, but worry it won't pay off.

The Financial Markets Authority is bracing for rapid changes as a result of technology advances with robo-advice the most obvious candidate.

The maker of Cillit Bang, Nurofen and Durex condoms has sealed a $90-a-share takeover of a US baby milk maker.

COMMENT: There's danger in relying on crowds. But crowd wisdom is often cited as the justification for the idea of efficient asset markets.

John Church, Bayleys' national director commercial and industrial, says childcare is all the rage in the commercial property market.

It will take years to restore trust in the finance industry says the boss of New Zealand's investment regulator.

Fast-growth companies are exciting investments. But they are not for the faint-hearted or the unprepared, writes Shane Solly.

Cynics might view vitamins and supplements as little more than snake oil, but Australasian investors are taking a bullish view on the natural products sector's growth prospects, particularly in China.

New Zealand shares dropped yesterday in a global selloff after weak Chinese manufacturing data added to concern about the world's second-largest economy.

New Zealand's listed companies are expected to present solid results to the market in the coming months but analysts are predicting cautious outlooks.

Last week the world's greatest living investor and third richest person made his first foray into the Australian stock market with a A$500 million stake in insurer IAG.

It's a tough time to be an investment banker in Southeast Asia. Mergers involving Southeast Asian companies have dropped 45 per cent this year to the lowest level since 2009.

Irving Kahn, the Manhattan money manager who predicted the 1929 Wall St crash, has died aged 109.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund says it remains comfortable with its investment in the US oil and gas industry.

Oceania Healthcare is on track for an initial public offering in early 2015, aged-care operator's chief executive, Earl Gasparich, says he's also in talks with private investors and funds.

The new-found wealth of entrepreneur Kim Dotcom came in part from an immigrant who has had at least $15m in assets seized in a money-laundering inquiry.

New Zealand could be on the cusp of a big lift in mergers and acquisitions activity, driven in part by increasing Asian interest in local companies.

Christchurch agribusiness company Scales said it had registered a prospectus for an IPO and sharemarket float today.

Investment bankers are putting increasing numbers of companies under the microscope as New Zealand firms line up to cash in on a rising sharemarket.

Banks stepped in to save the economic system, writes Bob Jones. Had they not, the world would have descended into anarchy with mass unemployment.

There have been a number of recent comments that the NZ sharemarket is overvalued, just as it was in the mid-1980s, writes Brian Gaynor.