All eyes are on President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address, the first in his second term in office, Tuesday evening. In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index both dipped 0.20 percent, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slipped 0.09 percent. The Dow fell from the highest close …

Receivers for collapsed construction firm Mainzeal Property and Construction say they are entertaining approaches from “a handful” of would-be buyers for either the whole firm or individual projects within it. data entry jobs at home PwC receiver Colin McCloy told BusinessDesk that around 200 staff have been made redundant to stem operating cash flows as they move as quickly as …

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker have announced a joint accord deferring the Christchurch City Council’s Long Term Plan until 2015 to allow an earthquake recovery cost-sharing method to be mutually agreed. Instead the council will undertake a new plan, to be called the Christchurch City Three Year Plan. Brownlee says this new planning process …