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Major Rakon shareholder cuts investment
One of Rakon's largest institutional shareholders has almost halved its investment in the high-tech electronic components maker.
Manufacturing grows at fastest pace in 8 months
Manufacturing grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January but employment in the sector is shrinking.
Rakon shares plunge 24pc on guidance cut
Rakon's share price dropped by nearly 24pc to an all-time low today after the high-tech components maker cut its earnings guidance for the second time since December.
Damien Grant: Economic tide has hit manufacturing
David Shearer and his cohort of prospective coalition partners, the Greens, Mana and NZ First, are holding a show-trial into who killed the manufacturing industry.
Dollar drops on unemployment fall news
The New Zealand dollar fell by more than half a US cent today after labour data showed that the employment rate fell to its lowest point in 10 years.
Unemployment down 0.4pc (+video)
New Zealand's unemployment rate fell from a 13-year high in the last three months of 2012 as people stopped looking for work and the participation rate shrank.
Peter Lyons: How we go about inflation
I pity manufacturers in New Zealand. They are the collateral damage of our narrow approach to controlling inflation.
Bryan Gould: NZ swims against exchange rate tide
That dwindling band who continue to deny our economy is being hurt by an overvalued currency will usually - in the face of the indisputable evidence - take refuge as a last resort.
Labour costs up 0.5pc as quake rebuild quickens
New Zealand labour costs rose in the final three months of 2012 as the gathering pace of Canterbury's reconstruction effort saw the building and construction sector underpin gains.
Prospects 'limited' after job losses
Workers who will lose their jobs when the Summit Wool Spinners' Oamaru plant closes could struggle to find work and may have to move, the Otago Chamber of Commerce says.
Editorial: Calls to focus on exchange rate should be ignored
Times are very tough in manufacturing. The global recession has merely contributed an additional woe to a sector whose share of economic activity has been declining for more than two decades.
Manufacturers threaten to quit NZ
More leading export companies are on the verge of moving overseas due to the high dollar, Opposition MPs were told yesterday by manufacturers.
John Armstrong: Inquiry exposes Govt vulnerability on exchange rate
A lot of exporters of manufactured products had been waiting for an opportunity to vent anguish over the high exchange rate, writes John Armstrong. The targets of the anger - John Key, the Reserve Bank, Steven Joyce and the Treasury - were absent.
Production barely expands
The manufacturing sector ended 2012 much as it had spent the whole year, just barely on the right side of the line between expansion and contraction, the BNZ-Business New Zealand performance of manufacturing index (PMI) indicates.
Bryan Gould: Crisis in manufacturing goes unheeded
An uncompetitive economy like ours becomes more and more dependent on those fewer and fewer sectors that can compete in international terms, writes Bryan Gould.
Onus on makers to prove claims
Misleading nutrition and health claims about food will be stopped under new regulations on labelling.
GDP growth has likely slowed
A slowdown from the first half of the year is expected when economic growth figures for the September quarter come out on Thursday.
Catherine Beard: Manufacturing's future has a new face
There is no denying that making products in New Zealand is vital to having a healthy economy.
Timber workers wait to hear their fate
Rotorua timber industry worker Daniel Mathew is philosophical about the possibility of losing his job.