Auckland International Airport plans to sell up to $175 million of six-year fixed-rate bonds to institutional and retail investors as it seeks to help fund its biggest ever infrastructure spending programme.

The persimmon season has just started in the United States, with harvest of the early season varieties underway.

The Tax Working Group (TWG)'s "Future of Tax" interim report is 188 pages long. There have been (and there will be) many hundreds more pages written about the findings. (Newsroom has written a few.) And that's even before the full report comes out in February next year.

Construction is due to begin at Scott Technology's Kaikorai Valley headquarters in Dunedin, in a $4million project which will double its space writes Simon Hartley in todays Otago Daily Times.

The Tiwai Point smelter will soon begin energising the site’s fourth potline after a six-year break

They come from around New Zealand and represent an array of sectors, demonstrating the nation’s business diversity and innovation.

Favourable hydro and wind conditions in the second quarter of 2018 led to the highest proportion of renewable electricity generation for the quarter since 1981, according to the New Zealand Energy Quarterly released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

New Zealand's seasonally adjusted current account deficit reduced to $2.7 billion for the June 2018 quarter, Stats NZ said.

Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 1.0 percent in the June 2018 quarter, up from 0.5 percent last quarter, Stats NZ said today. This is the largest quarterly rise in two years.

In Australia, Ola claims to operate in seven major cities and to have close to 50,000 registered drivers.