NZX, which operates the New Zealand stock exchange and the dairy futures market, is offering a new service for the dairy industry to forecast local milk production and calculate milk prices. From this month, NZX is offering a Milk Production Predictor, which estimates New Zealand milk production for the coming three months, with forecasts based on climate, pasture growth and cow …

Infratil, the infrastructure investor, has lowered earnings guidance for the coming year by as much as $40 million, reflecting the sale of its Australian energy assets. The Wellington-based company now expects annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and asset valuation changes will be between $520 million and $545 million in the year ended March 31, 2015, from a previously advised range of between …

Pyne Gould Corp, the Guernsey-based asset management firm controlled by George Kerr, said it missed yesterday’s deadline to submit its final audited accounts for the 2014 year to the stock exchange because of a delay in auditing one of the larger property investments in its Torchlight Fund. “PGC expects to be able to release its final audited full-year accounts and annual report …