By Pam Graham The central business district of New Zealand’s capital has withstood two earthquakes that could have collapsed buildings …
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TPP: Early harvests are ill-advised as there’s nothing to bring back to the barn
Penny Macdonald Many trade negotiators in Indonesia for the famous pre-Bogor APEC meetings were excited about the emerging vision of …
Read More »BUDGET 2013 COMMENT Tinkering at the edges as we sleep walk our way to a budget surplus
By Jo Doolan Higher taxes pave the path to the magical 2014/15 surplus – and as a reward taxpayers receive …
Read More »BUDGET 2013 COMMENT – Overly conservative, with a good deal of risk
Bill English has been too conservative in reigning in government expenditure. If he were confronting a bleaker fiscal picture, like …
Read More »TPP Just Got More Important – Penny Macdonald
Last week, the WTO had a chance to haul itself out of the dreary post-Doha doldrums in which it has …
Read More »CSIS Ernie Bower: Asia blinks in WTO leadership race
By Ernest Z. Bower Smoke signals from this week’s Geneva cloister to determine the new leader of the World Trade …
Read More »Apple’s NZ unit paid tax amounting to 0.4 percent of its half-billion sales in 2012
Apple Sales New Zealand, the local unit of the iPad and iPod maker, posted a 38 percent jump in full-year …
Read More »Shrinking volumes of dairy products on offer at latest GDT sale underline drought impact
By Kirsten Paterson The volume of dairy products offered in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction fell to the lowest level in …
Read More »Auckland Airport, Warehouse Group back efforts to deepen pool of directors
Auckland International Airport and Warehouse Group are backing a scheme to deepen the pool of directors in New Zealand and …
Read More »Scramble for dairy products in wake of NZ drought pushes whole milk powder price to highest level ever
ANZ reports the GDT-TWI index rose a massive 14.8 per cent overnight as there was a scramble to secure reduced …
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