26 February 2018  - Institutional, municipal pension funds shunning oil now pressures Saudi Monarchy to accelerate IPO----Russia-China consortium prowling, waiting.

The monarchical determination by the end of this year to run a test flotation of 5 percent of Saudi Aramco with a view to realising $100 billion can now be seen as a race against time to beat the clock before more Western funds and banks turn their faces against oil.

February 23, 2018  -  WHAT HAPPENED?   New Zealand State fervour over Hillary Clinton is once again evident with a clutch of governmental and therefore publicly funded institutions involved with her pending visit to Auckland in May.

Inscrutable Identity of her deputy leader

Judith Collins MP is the one who fills the essential and exclusive requirement that the National Party requires from its leader which is to lead it to victory.  But there the succession picture becomes foggy because there is no such clear-cut identi-kit picture of the dream deputy that the party caucus will plump for….. .

Vogueish status means Facebook remains unchallenged Guide Book for scam artists.

Scam artists are researching the backgrounds of their targets especially where they sit in corporate structures.  In one such recent example an employee of Spark, the telecoms provider, was led to believe that their caller, a fraudster, was part of their own hierarchy, a superior.

His systems implementation lesson remains to be learned.

Gordon Hogg who died recently personified the era in which New Zealand could lay claim to be among the most advanced nations, if not the most advanced, in terms of large scale networked computerisation.

A Clue is need to repatriate Saudi Funds.

He emerged from his unexpected and unwanted seclusion looking thinner than before and rather more grey and describing the entire ordeal as if it were business as usual, another day at the office.  The sequestration of prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, grandson of Ibn Saud the founder of Saudi Arabia, continues meanwhile to raise more questions than it did answers.

Espionage episode centred on Soviet’s sighting New Zealand meat export price schedule.

During the Cold War New Zealand’s trade with the Soviet Union ran hot. With the thaw and the aftermath of the Cold War this trade started to freeze over.

A “Worldly and Informed Content” powers spectacular growth of New Zealand site.

Forecasts and reports unfiltered by the constraints imposed by the perceived need to adhere to rigid prevailing socio-political ideologies was an explanation for MSCNewswire surpassing one million visits per month.

Write nothing dangerous in the eyes of a third party

The email has turned out to be a most accessible form of communication competing in its way in visibility terms with the unsightly billboard hoarding on the motorway.

In light of the accidental coffee shop meetings and subsequent events playing out in the media over recent days it is timely to recall this clip from the MSCReporters' desk originally run January 28, 2018.