Blogger Cameron Slater says he will complain to police about the hacking of his Whaleoil website and will name entrepreneur Kim Dotcom as someone detectives should speak to.
Labour and New Zealand First yesterday launched their 2014 election campaigns, with both parties aiming at similar voters.
New Zealand First's KiwiSaver policy is a nice idea but almost impossible to achieve, Dunedin financial adviser Peter Smith says.
Steadily improving economic conditions and favourable funding conditions helped ASB Bank report an improved profit for the year ended June.
Dunedin posties were welcoming being part of a changing mail delivery environment which could see the introduction of mid-range vehicles and e-trolleys, New Zealand Post operations general manager Matthew Riordan says.
Shoppers seemed to hold back on their credit card spending in July, as electronic card spending remained flat on the previous month.
Interest rates are likely to remain on hold until at least March, when the Reserve Bank may lift its official cash rate after an extended pause in its monetary policy tightening cycle.
Recent strong jobs growth is expected to have continued in the three months ended June, lowering the unemployment rate to 5.8% from 6%.
Trade Me's backdown in pricing for real estate agents was strategically the right move, Craigs Investment Partners broker Chris Timms said yesterday.
Fixing the over-taxation of KiwiSaver would add more than $100,000 to the retirement savings of someone saving 6% of income for 40 years on the average wage, Financial Services Council chief executive Peter Neilsen said on Tuesday.
Most markets performed respectably in the first half of the year with the NZX50, in New Zealand, posting the strongest return in the six months to June 30. Business editor Dene Mackenzie talks to Craigs Investment Partners broker Chris Timms about the first six months and what he expects for the rest of the year.
Motor Trade Finances chairman Stephen Higgs is urging shareholders to vote against resolutions he says appear designed to undermine the management and governance of the board.
General practitioners in small New Zealand towns and rural areas are likely to be keen users of the new Pacific Edge e-commerce site, chief executive David Darling says.
A calculated offer by Dorchester Pacific to buy the remaining shares it does not own in Turners Auctions is likely to pay dividends, giving Dorchester access to the cash flow generated by Turners.
Abano Healthcare produced a flat operating profit for the year ended May but once it added in Australian dental revenue and removed acquisition expenses, its financial results looked flattering.
Dunedin is guaranteed four MPs again after the election, but the final make-up will not be known until the election results are posted on September 20.
Ross Smith imagined he would spend three or four years as chief executive of the then Southland Building Society.
The Green Party wants to prohibit deep sea oil drilling around the coast of New Zealand, at a time when some of the global giants of drilling are conducting testing in New Zealand waters.
It is too soon for doom and gloom to be cast over the New Zealand dairy industry, the executive director of MyFarm, New Zealand's largest farm investment company, Andrew Watters, says.
The National Party's strong polling has led to market complacency around the potential for policy shifts following the September 20 election, Forsyth Barr broker Andrew Rooney says.
