The New Zealand dollar was little changed above 83 US cents after testing the upper limits of its recent trading range as traders await this week’s meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers. cheap software downloads The kiwi dollar traded at 83.36 US cents from 83.31 cents at 5pm in Wellington yesterday. It earlier reached 83.53 cents, a level it hasn’t seriously …

GLOBAL MARKETS:  Our London colleagues report that it was a quiet day in Europe . Most of the day’s focus was on the negative Italian headlines.  The weekend’s Italian political bombshell, along with some very weak industrial production data out of France and Italy , weighed on European equities, EUR and Italian sovereign bonds in early trading. However, most markets …

Environment Minister Amy Adams will today kick-off the next stage of the Government’s plan to reform the Resource Management Act. This afternoon, the Resource Management Amendment Bill 2012 will have its first reading in Parliament. The bill introduces a streamlined process for Auckland’s first unitary plan, a six-month time limit for processing consents for medium-sized projects and easier direct referral …