Trading platform operator CMC Markets has launched share contracts over the top 45 stocks listed on the NZX.

Mystery has enveloped the ginseng industry-the biggest customer for a small Canadian county has disappeared.

Zespri has been made an "importer of record" in China - giving the kiwifruit marketer more control over its product in what is poised to become its biggest market by volume.

China has revealed that New Zealand citizen Bill Liu is ranked number five on its Top 100 extradition list.

Signals that New Zealand could secure a better deal on its Free Trade Agreement with China is a "beacon of hope" for our dairy industry, said the head of an export association.

Dairy prices continued to firm at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the GDT price index gaining 3.8 per cent driven mostly by a big gain in whole milk powder prices.

Today, we talk exclusively to the AFFCO meatworker who spent an hour and a half with a meat hook impaled in his head.

New Zealand trade officials have signed a deal with the world's largest online marketplace, China's Alibaba Group.

COMMENT: On one hand our two governments are building a free trade zone to continually deepen our cooperation on trade and investment. On the other, we are creating a new history of exchanges on culture and language, writes Wang Lutong.

COMMENT: The Prime Minister's mission is to try and squeeze a few concessions out of the Chinese this week - easier said than done of course, writes Barry Soper.

COMMENT: Free trade will top PM's priorities, with issues including dairy, territory and extradition.

Trade Minister Todd McClay says the Government is assessing the implications of recent regulatory changes in China's cross border e-commerce market.

COMMENT: These days, the worst multinational corporations have names you've never heard.

News of Chinese regulatory changes has given local investors jitters and hit Australasian infant formula and health supplement stocks.

New Zealand lamb is being sold under label set up by Prince Charles to promote best of British.

Prime Minister John Key will visit China this month to discuss the free trade agreement between the two countries.

COMMENT: Does economics still believe in free trade?

New Zealand's merchant trade surplus reached $339 million in February.

New Zealand and Australia should act as one when working towards trade agreements, says John Key.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won an air cargo cartel appeal against Air New Zealand.

COMMENT: From direct flights, to our co-operation in the Pacific and beyond, the UAE-New Zealand relationship is moving to exciting new levels.

World dairy prices went against market expectations and fell 2.9 per cent decline at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction.

New Zealand's trade with Iran could surpass pre-sanction levels and tap into "vast possibilities", Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says.

A steep rise in China's reported imports from Hong Kong has raised concerns that trade invoices are being manipulated to get capital.

Under Key and Turnbull's leadership, the relationship between the nations is now stronger and closer than between any other country on earth, writes Alex Malley.

New Zealand wholesale trade dips in fourth quarter on decline in basic material products.

De Beers is ramping up diamond sales to cash in on a recovery from last year's slump.