Yields on US Treasuries climbed and Wall Street was mixed, as energy and bank stocks rose.

When it comes to eating ice cream, the people of Invercargill are New Zealand champions.

The drop reflected a decline in the value, price and volume of exports, led by dairy, meat and forestry shipments.

A bid by Labour leader Andrew Little to make Govt prioritise NZ jobs in its tenders has failed at the first hurdle.

Oil rallied, as did energy stocks, after OPEC agreed on details to cut output for the first time in eight years.

Energy stocks fell with oil prices amid a stalemate about an agreement to cut production.

Irate customer told she had to buy more items to get her iPhone for the advertised price.

Fonterra is developing a new range of products to appeal to Asian markets including candy cheese, low salt cheese, and medicinal lactose.

KiwiRail has announced a workaround for rail lines severed by the Kaikoura earthquake - a coastal shipping service from Auckland to Christchurch.

Women are being branded an untapped resource in filling the national trades shortage, as a new company seeks to get women into the construction industry.

China may take the place of the US in an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement following the US withdrawal from TPP.

The Government may be disappointed by Donald Trump's TPP policy but it is pushing NZ interests in other markets, including Iran.

Donald Trump's axing of the TPP is unsurprising but still a huge disappointment say two business leaders.

US President-elect Donald Trump has released a video saying he will withdraw the US from the TPP trade deal on his first day in office.

Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged calls from Britain's main corporate lobby group to avoid a "cliff edge".

Donald Trump's trade policies will amount to the biggest change to the way America does business in decades.

Trump's foreign financial interests are on a scale never before seen in past presidencies.

New Zealand export log prices rose for a third straight month in November, aided by low shipping rates and demand from China.

Prime Minister John Key has announced the launch of negotiations to upgrade the China Free Trade Agreement.

Kiwi exporters are confident about 2017 despite uncertainties after Brexit and President-elect Donald Trump.

Prime Minister John Key is hoping to speak to Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Apec summit in Lima today

Prime Minister John Key has joked that the TPP could be renamed the 'Trump Pacific Partnership" to try to get the President-elect on board.

COMMENT: The leaders of the 12 TPP countries thought they would be patting themselves on the back this year.

Donald Trump has been declared bankrupt six times. Economists are afraid he could do the same to the US economy.

PM John Key has arrived in Lima for the Apec summit and will head to a meeting of the TPP country leaders early Sunday morning.

Stocks on both sides of the Atlantic gained, and so did the US dollar, after Federal Chair Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress cemented

PM John Key will leave for the Apec summit in Peru today where TPP leaders will meet to try and salvage the agreement from a Donald Trump presidency.

COMMENT: Our trade relationship with the US just got harder.

New Zealanders are still reeling and rattled from Monday's 7.8 earthquake - but our markets barely felt the tremors.

Rakon posted a first-half loss, blaming a sluggish telecommunications network industry for lacklustre sales.