The New Zealand dollar held above 83 US cents, having rallied in New York on Friday following figures showing the US economy added more jobs than expected and the jobless rate fell. Weaker US consumer sentiment capped the gains. The New Zealand dollar fell to 83.12 US cents from 83.24 cents in late New York trading on Friday. The trade-weighted …

Phil O’Reilly, Chief Executive of New Zealand’s largest business advocacy group – BusinessNZ, came out strongly in support of TPP at Friday’s stakeholder day. best software for graphic design “For a small economy like NZ, which depends for its economic survival on doing business with the rest of the world, the growth in trade in the APEC region has been …

EMA CEO Kim Campbell says if the TPP deal is?not right, “New Zealand will walk away.” As one of the first nations to embrace bilateral free trade agreements, New Zealand has learnt a number of lessons when it comes to international trade agreements Campbell told the TPP Stakeholders Day. “They must be high quality, they must be fair to all …