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Oil drilling plan comes with warning
New Zealand is about to open huge tracts of its offshore territory.
No one wants to make pizza
There are few things more Italian than a freshly-baked pizza emerging from a wood-fired oven, but Italy is now facing an acute shortage of pizza makers.
More oil and gas prospects opened up
The Government is opening up more of the Taranaki, the East Coast , Northland Canterbury and Great South Basins to oil and gas explorers.
Key: rules should keep oil cowboys out
Prime Minister John Key says he is confident safety and environment rules being brought in to cover oil and gas exploration will keep out "cowboy "operators.
Dairy industry booms
Capital projects worth more than $1 billion are either under way or on the drawing board as the dairy industry gears up for increased demand from Asia for our milk powder.
Mortgagee sales fall to four year low
In the last quarter of 2012, there were 461 mortgagee sales, 11 per cent down from the previous quarter and 24 per cent less than the same quarter the year before, according to statistics released today by Terralink International.
Kiwis living pay day to pay day
Nearly half of New Zealanders are living pay day to pay day without a nest egg to fall back on in case of emergencies.
How best to calculate electricity cost?
If Meridian Energy had already floated, it's a fair bet that its share price would have dropped after the Opposition unveiled its electricity policy a week ago.
Economic growth as Chch businesses reopen
Almost 200 Christchurch businesses have been opened or reopened since January and the population is growing as the Canterbury city continues its recovery from the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
NZ dollar rises after OCR review
The dollar rose as much as 0.7 per cent against the greenback after Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler backed off from talking down the currency at today's monetary policy review.
David Tripe: Keep Reserve Bank out of the house
"While there's been much hand-wringing over housing prices, is intervention by the Reserve Bank really the answer?" asks David Tripe.
Alasdair Thompson: Gould long on criticism, short on advice
Contributor Bryan Gould says the Key Government's direction will see New Zealand "become an economic satellite or colony of China ... or be first absorbed into a greater Australia on the way".
Brian Rudman: Shearer electrifying free-market debate
"What just happened?" asks Brian Rudman. "Bland, colourless Labour leader David Shearer has suddenly been transmogrified into a working-class hero."
Economic gap between Aussie states gets wider
But the gap between the best and worst-performing states in the country appears to be widening, CommSec's quarterly State of the States economic performance report says.