China's enormous sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, may have set aside up to 1.5 per cent or about $6 billion of its massive foreign exchange reserves to invest in New Zealand assets.
Mainfreight has achieved record earnings in the 2011 financial year as a recovery in global freight supports its grab for market share.
Labour is continuing to insist that putting agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2013 won't raise the price of dairy products, and says Prime Minister John Key is being misleading by saying it will.
Stocks fell in Europe and the US and the euro weakened amid concern Europe's debt-crisis is worsening and America's economic recovery is running out of puff.
Barry Silbert is trading in a sizzling market: shares of private, venture-backed social-media companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
It's foolish to rush into further commitments on cutting carbon emissions, writes Phil O'Reilly
The November 26 general election will be a test about economic management and tomorrow's budget will show the Government is up to the challenge, Prime Minister John Key says.
She couldn't interest me in the specials (two luxury length chocolate bars for $4) but the Shell (now Z) girl pressed me on the benefits of Fly Buys.