Exports have fallen for the fourth quarter in a row, but the trends are easing.

NZ had a lower than expected trade deficit of $269m in November, while the annual trade deficit fell to its lowest level since September 2002.

New Zealand recorded a seasonally adjusted current account surplus of $340 million in the September quarter.

Technology exports are quickly becoming our biggest moneymakers, rivalled only by dairy.

New Zealand will not consider the unilateral reduction of any tariffs until 2015 at the earliest, says Trade Minister Tim Groser.

For the first time in over a year economic growth prospects have been revised upwards, an economic think-tank says.

Greenpeace is trying to keep up pressure on Fonterra to limit its use of palm kernel feed with a public rally outside the Ports of Tauranga.

Farmers have described Greenpeace's occupation of an inbound cargo vessel as 'economic treason.'

Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.