Dene Mackenzie

Apppointments yesterday by Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel ruled out the election this year being held in October.

Two stories that recently caught my attention featured issues I hope never become intertwined.

A move by Fletcher Building to list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and delist from the NZX would leave a huge hole, Forsyth Barr broker Peter Young said yesterday.

A taskforce chaired by investment banker Rob Cameron was launched yesterday with the aim of helping develop New Zealand's capital markets.

Dunedin employers are being urged to indicate early their willingness to employ soon-to-be redundant Fisher & Paykel Appliance workers.

Housing affordability remains almost impossibly high in the Central Otago Lakes district despite falling house prices and lower interest rates driving a record improvement in home loan affordability in other parts of New Zealand.

The Russian-controlled New Zealand Dairies Ltd is thought to be planning to spend another $100 million on the Studholme factory, installing an anhydrous milk fat plant or a second drier.

Property financier Strategic Finance gave its 20,000 investors some good news yesterday with the announcement of a management buy-out backed by BOS International, a subsidiary of Halifax Bank of Scotland.

Former Telecom chief executive Theresa Gattung has lent her support to an ambitious project to develop New Zealand's strong wool industry into an internationally recognised brand.

Prospects for a rapid recovery from New Zealand's partly self-imposed recession were fading fast, Berl senior economist Ganesh Nana said yesterday.