Friday’s May US payrolls report appears to have quieted, but not put to rest, the main focus of investors: when will the US Federal Reserve begin to temper its monthly bond-buying program? Initially this week, the focus has shifted to Asia where there were signs of deepening weakness in China, fuelling concern about the slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy …

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler faces the same tensions between a high kiwi dollar and a heated housing market that have informed his monetary policy decisions all year and no change is likely at next week’s review as inflation stays low. Wheeler will keep the official cash rate at 2.5 percent when he releases the monetary policy statement on June …

Dorchester Pacific has raised $4.1 million in a placement to institutions, with two major shareholders taking up an offer to sell down their own holdings in a secondary pool. At total of 35 million shares were sold at 25 cents apiece to institutional investors, the financial services company said in a statement. That was made up of 16.3 million of …