Business
How deep will Dr Bollard cut?
Economists are predicting that Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard could cut official interest rates by 1.5 percentage points in one fell swoop this week.
Jasons posts improved results
Jasons Travel Media has announced an improved half year result but is wary of what effect a downturn in tourism might have on its customers.
St Laurence offshoot loses $34.84m
By DAVID HARGREAVES - BusinessDay.co.nz
St Laurence Property & Finance (SLPF) says it is looking to reduce debt levels after reporting a $34.84 million loss for the six months to September.
OCR cut will increase margin pressure: CBS
By AARON LIM - Businessday | 04:13PM
Canterbury Building Society posted an interim profit for the half year ending September 2008 of $1,504,561, but also warned that rapidly falling interest rates would exert increasing pressure on margins.
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- Dorchester loses $35m
- Apple Fields posts $1.58m loss
- MYOB says investors should reject takeover bid
- Exporters call for 2pc cut
- NZ better off in P7 talks - Groser
- Council may cut airport stake
- From plastic to fantastic
- Outlook sunny for farmers, says banker
- Debt collectors want permanent bankruptcy records
- Forum to resurrect differential rate report
- NZ better off in P7 talks - Groser
- Firm turns 60 with full book
- New face wants a cut of the shaving action
- Investors angry as Hanover boss parties
- Tougher lending has silver lining for home-buyers
- Value investing: value for money
- Defunct Hanover a $200m cash cow
- So fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry
- Full impact of recession still to be felt
- House of Hanover hangs on
- Glut of flats as building consents hit 16-year low
- Farming is back as the backbone
- Geneva's future 'secure'
- More red sheds in the pipeline
- Residential construction tanks
- New Red Shed blitz planned
Large rate cut likely as pressures dive
AAP
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could slice a further full percentage point off the official cash rate tomorrow after new data showed price pressures receding rapidly.
Bidders circle troubled UK Woolworths
Crisis response 'will be inflationary'
By DAVID McEWEN - The Dominion Post
The CFA Society, an association of investment professionals, invites a guest speaker of international reputation to New Zealand every year. Recently we heard from Bud Conrad, chief economist of United States-based company Casey Research.
Good policies will help close income gap
Large rate cut likely as pressures dive
AAP
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could slice a further full percentage point off the official cash rate tomorrow after new data showed price pressures receding rapidly.
MYOB says investors should reject takeover bid
SCF a 'positive' amid gloom
By ALAN WOOD - The Press
The South Island's richest individual, Allan Hubbard, is very much the "chairman of the board" and the focus of all eyes at South Canterbury Finance's annual meeting.
Working toward a debt-free retirement
Dec 1 - Open: Dollar eases against greenback
NZPA
The New Zealand dollar reached a week-high against the euro but eased against the greenback in thin trade.
Nov 28 - Close: Dollar little changed in quiet trade
Nov 28 - Open: Dollar firms against majors, slides against Aussie
Dec 1 - Open: Sharemarket starts week looking up
NZPA
The New Zealand sharemarket enjoyed a positive start to what will be a busy week for economists and market watchers.
Nov 28 - Close: Market lifts after flat start
Median weekly mortgages on the rise
The median weekly mortgage payment rose by $72 in the June year from the previous 12 months, new figures show.
- Air NZ crash speculation 'destructive'
- Heidi Klum's 'bag of teeth' shocks TV host
- Mary-Kate Olsen reportedly pregnant
- Outrage over students using park for sex
- Drunken mayhem in Christchurch 'shocking'
- Whale 'stranding' a ruse
- Cyclist who died in mountain bike event named
- Cops hail cannabis haul
- Dating experts slam Jennifer Aniston
- Flutey gets his black jersey - Nonu's one
MERGER MOODS: The issue of a possible merger of the Australian and New Zealand share markets is still sensitive if a statement today by New Zealand's Capital Market Development Taskforce is anything to go by.
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Aussie manufacturing at all-time low
Australian manufacturing activity dropped to an all-time low in November as new orders faltered, according to a report out today.
SCF a 'positive' amid gloom
The South Island's richest individual, Allan Hubbard, is very much the "chairman of the board" and the focus of all eyes at South Canterbury Finance's annual meeting.
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As a young fluffy chick, she stole hearts - now as a teen, she's off into the world to find someone to give her heart to.
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Analysing the ABs tour
Ali Williams and Ma'a Nonu were the players of the tour on a five-week trip that proved grand in more ways than one, writes Duncan Johnstone
House buying more difficult
Couples will find their first home harder to buy as banks increase their minimum deposit rates, budget advisers say.