Rumble Seat Columnist Dan Neil test drove all of this year’s hottest cars from the 2012 BMW 330i to the 2012 Porsche Panamera GTS. Here’s a look at those and the rest of the year’s most expensive, fastest, and coolest cars from around the world.

New Zealand shares fell, led by OceanaGold, after the gold miner sold shares at a discount to repay debt. Chorus halted its two-day, 18.5 percent slump driven by the threat of regulated prices. The NZX 50 Index fell 8.44 points, or 0.2 percent, to a two-week low close of 4007.24. Within the index, 19 stocks rose, 18 fell and 13 …

Investors in Hubbard Management Funds are likely to get their initial distributions in the first three months of next year after the High Court settled on how to split the funds. Justice Lester Chisholm has directed statutory managers Trevor Thornton, Richard Simpson and Graeme McGlinn of Grant Thornton to split HMF into two pools, the first being the principal amount …