Article – Businesswire

July 6 (BusinessDesk) – For such a smartly dressed, carefully spoken chap, Shamubeel Eaqub from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research sure knows how to wave a shroud. Read more »

Article – Alastair Thompson

June 22 (BusinessWire) – What if, after years of alleged inaction against some of the country’s greediest charlatans, the investment watchdogs savaged a poodle or, worse, a lovable labrador? Read more »

Article – Businesswire

June 18 (BusinessWire) – The visit to New Zealand of the apparent heir to the Chinese presidency, Xi Jinpeng, is incredibly important for the burgeoning and unusually affectionate relationship between the world’s new powerhouse economy and New Zealand. Read more »

Column – Businesswire

June 16 (BusinessWire) – So consumers are feeling more chipper, and might start spending again, says the latest Westpac McDermott-Miller survey of consumer confidence. Read more »

Column – Businesswire

The latest was a report written on Tuesday afternoon for Thursday publication, punting that NZX would win the contract to run the new electricity derivatives market for the local market platform owner, EnergyHedge. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

May 21 (BusinessWire) – Remarkable in the tidal wave of approval for Bill English’s second Budget is the irrelevance of the Opposition Labour Party. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

May 21 (BusinessWire) – Remarkable in the tidal wave of approval for Bill English’s second Budget is the irrelevance of the Opposition Labour Party. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

by Pattrick Smellie May 14 (BusinessWire) – Remember where you heard it first. (Which I admit may not have been here). The recovery is on the way. Read more »

Press Release – NZX

The attached disclosure notices relate to the acquisition and, where applicable, subsequent disposition of securities pursuant to NZX Limited’s 2010 Profit Distribution Plan. Read more »

SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Screw-ups past and present

By Pattrick Smellie

May 7 (BusinessWire) – There would be few people who could lay claim to being described in the Southland Times as “an abject figure”. I am one of them. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

April 30 (BusinessWire) – This week’s announcements on securities law reform by Commerce Minister Simon Power are profound for New Zealand capital markets after years of serial failure by both the makers and enforcers of laws to protect the gullible from … Read more »

Article – Businesswire

BusinessWire) – A long time ago, a bloke called Stephen Rowe applied to be a press secretary for Jim Bolger, who was then Prime Minister. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

When was the last time you bought yourself something nice? Too long ago, according to the latest retail sales statistics. February’s retail sales were “dire”, said one bank economist. They certainly punched another big hole in any idea that … Read more »

Article – Businesswire

April 9 (BusinessWire) – Down in Christchurch, for the last 20 years, the Family Help Trust has beavered away creating one of the best early childhood intervention programmes in the country, creating futures for families that the statistics would … Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Get over it. Imagine being Barack Obama today – praised by Fidel Castro for his health reforms. New Zealand being criticised by The Economist for threatening its green image by mining conservation land pales in comparison. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

March 12 (BusinessWire) – Business journalists in New Zealand just came through an unusually busy half-year reporting season, partly because there are few of us left and also because the state-owned enterprises reported at about the same time. Previously, … Read more »

Article – Businesswire

March 5 (BusinessWire) – As a bouncy young Minister in 1992, Simon Upton dismembered the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and created the Crown Research Institutes, to various shrieks of heresy and with perhaps too much the idea they … Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Phil Heatley: – Basically, I have a confusing wallet. I’m not a details person. I’ve got really no idea which credit card I use most of the time. All too believable. That’s what it looked like, not that I know Phil Heatley. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

by Pattrick Smellie Feb. 12 (BusinessWire) – If I was John Key, I’d be rarked up too with Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard raining on my parade by saying the most New Zealand could expect was “crumbs from Australia’s table”. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Feb. 5 (BusinessWire) – Early reports from today’s hui of Maori and national leaders at Waitangi suggest a typically turbulent exchange, piqued this year by signs of how the John Key-led National-Maori Party government continues to change the way … Read more »