Oil and gas explorer Anadarko has ruled out suggestions it was having briefings with interested parties in Dunedin this week, with its offshore deep-water test drilling 60km north of the city almost completed.
Private, family-owned roading, infrastructure and resources company Fulton Hogan is setting the foundation for expansion, delivering a strong half-year result and has more than $2.8 billion of forward orders in New Zealand and Australia.
Port Otago's new $11 million tug is on track to be launched this month in Vietnam for fitting out and sea trials, and is expected to be delivered and ready for service on Dunedin's harbour in August.
Dunedin-based cancer diagnostic company Pacific Edge is to receive $4.5 million in government grants towards research and development over the next three years.
The role of directors in failed Taieri Plains fertiliser company Featherston Resources will be scrutinised in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Sydney today.
Port Otago can look forward to some return on its 15.5%, more than $50 million stake in rival Lyttelton Port of Christchurch, which is resuming dividend payments after three and a-half years.
National transtasman air carriers Air New Zealand and Qantas are on markedly different courses, Air New Zealand having reported a healthy profit and buoyed by bright outlook, while Qantas, which booked a heavy financial loss, has announced massive redundancies.
Australia's national airline has delivered a nightmare half-year result, including the axing of 5000 jobs, costing $500 million, as it targets $A2 billion ($NZ2.15 billion) in cost savings.
Thousands of meatworkers at Silver Fern Farms' mainly South Island processing plants are expected to attend pay ratification meetings on Monday.
Beleaguered Bathurst Resources will have to bide its time and wait for global coking coal prices to strengthen before starting its proposed West Coast mining operation, then likely go back to shareholders for an injection of new equity.
Tourism operator Tourism Holdings Ltd (THL) has booked a turnaround profit for its first-half trading, prompting a strong forecast for a 175% increase on full-year profit.
Plunging global coal prices has forced Bathurst Resources to lay off staff, cut costs and postpone starting controversial work on the Denniston Plateau, prompting environmentalists to call for a halt to any work there.
Dual-listed rest-home developer Summerset's rapid expansion in recent years has been reflected in large gains in unit sales, cash flow and its after-tax profit.
Subscribers to Sky TV's My Sky have underpinned a strong first-half result. More than 480,000 people are now using the My Sky decoder.
Logistics company Freightways booked a record first-half trading result, with revenue and profit up on a year ago due to sound contributions from all its multiple divisions.
Retirement village operator Summerset is being tipped by analysts to book a more than 40% profit increase for its full-year result, remaining on target to continue its strong level of development this year.
Close scrutiny continues this week of the stock exchange's second full week of the company reporting season, with bellwether companies providing a snapshot of the economy.
Australian-listed Origin Energy is bullish on the potential of exporting liquefied natural gas (lng) from the Caravel prospect off the coast of Oamaru, at present being test-drilled by Houston-based oil giant Anadarko.
The receiver's first report on failed Mosgiel diatomite manufacturing company Featherston Resources has been filed, but sheds little light on the company's immediate future.
Investors in former financier Alan Hubbard's private Aorangi Securities have received a further payment, taking their payout to 92c in the dollar, a total of $88.7 million.
