Mr Key said Solid Energy had $300 million of outstanding debt and was in a "precarious position".

Our fruit trade has become a heavy hitter as an export, helping to at least partly offset weakness in the dairy and forest products sectors.

Concentrating on marketing its cuts rather than processing them is paying dividends for a niche meat exporter.

Germany is the largest export market for New Zealand onions, followed by Indonesia and Japan.

Open Country has told its farmers that their forecast payout has been cut back due to slumping world dairy prices.

Editorial: The resource is not being used as it should be, and stricter policing of the current trade will not, in itself, change that markedly.

New Zealand manufacturing activity increased in June, snapping three months of decline, as a weaker dollar supported exporters in the sector.

Chief Theo Spierings admits news unsettling for staff as co-op tries to reduce its payroll bill by up to $60m a year.

Dairy prices have plunged in the latest world dairy auction, taking the Kiwi dollar down with it.

A $16.65m programme to develop and commercialise new ways to process food could add $250 million a year to NZ's export earnings within 20 years.

Investment expert Mark Lister looks at whether our "rock star economy" is headed for recession.

A tourism leader has branded the Government's new travel tax as ludicrous and hypocrisy.

"It's pretty negative, there's a lot of selling in the futures and there's not much buying - this market looks completely stuffed."

A document shows the US was trying to get increased TPP protection for drug company intellectual property.

The New Zealand dollar fell after prices for the nation's largest commodity export declined in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight.

The price for NZ's key dairy export, whole milk powder, is set to decline further at tonight's GlobalDairyTrade auction.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says TPP talks should soon pick up steam, with negotiators preparing to put their real cards on the table.

The drop in the New Zealand dollar has enabled local video games producer to focus on expansion and growing its workforce.

There was no suggestion made to a Saudi businessman that he could sue the New Zealand Government, the Prime Minister says.

A letter to the Foreign Minister indicates the Government suggested a Saudi businessman could take legal action against it over sheep exports, the Green Party says.

The Government is looking to China to renegotiate its free trade agreement with New Zealand after China signed a more generous agreement with Australia.

The TPP trade pact does not yet include an acceptable deal on access for NZ's most important exports, dairy products, with little more than a month to go before the controversial 12- nation trade deal could be concluded.

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler and exporters alike will be taking some comfort from the devaluation of the NZ dollar and analysts are calling it lower still.

The fate of the TPP trade and investment pact may be known as early as next Wednesday, after a vote endorsed the elusive 'fast-track authority' for Obama.

New Zealand earned $8.6 billion less from the rest of the world through trade and investment in the year to March than the rest of the world earned from us.

A fresh herb grower has confirmed its Italian parsley, which was stocked by two New World supermarkets in the Auckland region, has tested positive for listeria.

Lambs born after the airfreighting of 900 pregnant ewes to a businessman’s Saudi farm suffered an extremely high death rate, it has been claimed.

The account surplus was larger-than-expected in the first quarter as spending by tourists widened the services balance.

Dairy prices slipped again at this morning's GlobalDairyTrade auction, the GDT price index falling by 1.3 per cent.