Representatives from the Five Nations Beef Alliance are in Maryland this week pushing for beef trade liberalisation through the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal.The alliance, which comprises industry organisations from...

Wool prices have recovered some lost ground and are expected to remain steady throughout the year, says ASB Bank in its latest commodities report.Coarse wool prices (35 micron) over the past four weeks have averaged about 5 per...

Xero chief executive Rod Drury says he is still considering listing on the US stock exchange but will wait for the "optimal time" to do so, following the release of the company's full-year result yesterday."We could [list soon]...

The Nasdaq composite climbed Thursday to the highest level in 15 years, topping its dot-com-era high, as U.S. stocks shrugged off mixed earnings and disappointing manufacturing data from across the globe. Oil rose to a four-month...

Spark New Zealand, formerly Telecom Corp, has slipped from being the country's largest listed company, as investors mull its transformation away from telecommunications and the risk of increased competition.Earlier this week, the...

LanzaTech, the New Zealand-founded carbon recycling company, says it has other full-scale commercial plants in the pipeline following this week's announcement that China Steel Corp will invest US$46 million in a commercial scale ethanol...

China Steel Corporation, Taiwan's largest integrated steelmaker, has given formal approval for a US$46 million (NZ$60m) investment in a commercial scale ethanol facility developed by New Zealand-founded LanzaTech.The CSC board decision...

Managing a business to sustain and grow returns, and meet the needs of a wide range of interested parties is tough enough at the best of times. Listed companies are under the constant gaze of stock market participants. This means...

Goldman Sachs New Zealand Holdings has posted a 52 per cent drop in revenue and a full-year loss for 2014.The local unit of the Wall Street investment bank reported a $2.9 million loss for the 12 months to December 31, down from...

A futures trader has been arrested in Great Britain for his alleged involvement in the "Flash Crash" of 2010 in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 600 points in five minutes.After the arrest of Navinder Singh...