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NZ Dollar Outlook: Kiwi may keep falling
The New Zealand dollar may extend its decline this week as investors, nervous about the slow progress being made on Europe's escalating sovereign debt crisis, sell growth-linked currencies for the relative safety of the greenback.
NZ 'in good shape' - English
Finance Minister Bill English said that compared to the pessimism in the United States, the New Zealand was in "pretty good shape."
World markets tumble on recession fears
A new report quashing hopes China's would pick up the slack from problems in the US and Europe has sent...
Dicaprio, Putin and the all-star plot to save tigers
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.
The cost of vanishing rainforests
Groundbreaking new research puts a price tag on our natural resources.
<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Pandering to China on Key agenda
Prime Minister John Key will launch his own version of 'Panda diplomacy' in Beijing today.