Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Apr 24 - New Zealand's travel and migration data out this morning will be one of the major releases this week for economists to review and digest. Historically, high net immigration is a major source of support to the New Zealand economy, having contributed more than 70% of resident population growth over the …

History is set to be made in the next few months as the world’s biggest plane is set to take to the skies.

Apr 24 - The EU's trade chief said Monday that the bloc's two most powerful leaders will tell U.S. President Donald Trump to back off on plans to impose steel and aluminum tariffs when they visit Washington this week. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela …

Apr 24 - Beijing has come a long way since it first landed a jet fighter aboard what was originally HMAS Melbourne in 1987. The former Australian aircraft carrier had been sold for scrap. But it proved a source of valuable technical intelligence for an ambitious Chinese military. China surprised the world again …

Apr 24 - Yesterday, Newshub reported hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders are relying on Ministry of Social Development (MSD) food grants to help meet the cost of living. Numbers have increased steadily, up 50 percent on two years ago. In the three months to March, 143,900 people got help buying food …

Apr 24 - Fletcher Building's intention to exit the 'vertical construction' sector leaves a gap in the market for large-scale commercial and government projects and is pushing up building costs, according to a report on industry trends

Apr 24 - Regional rescue helicopters are often dispatched to remote areas, as this photo of a Mt Ruapehu rescue in 2015 shows. The country's rescue helicopter fleet is old and unsuitable, the Ministry of Health says.

Apr 24 -  The European Union says a sweeping new trade deal with Mexico is a signal to the rest of the world — including the Trump administration. EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malstrom said Monday that the preliminary deal, agreed on Saturday and to be finalized this year, is a "powerful …

Apr 24 - The Struthers family, which founded the Avanti bicycle brand and built Sheppard Industries into the largest cycling company in Australasia, has cut its final ties to the business, selling its remaining shareholding to a Switzerland-based company, Scott Sports.  The family sold most of its shareholding in the business to Scott Sports in 2015, and exited its remaining holding in December for an undisclosed sum. Kim Struthers, the son of founder John Struthers, stepped down as New Zealand country manager last month and the Struthers family no longer has any connection with the business.

Apr 24 - As PM Jacinda Ardern returns from a triumphant tour to Britain and he capitals of Europe, her officials have probably begun to assess what the more substantive gains from the trip might have been. Most of the chatter has been about potential trade deals – so lets just assume for the moment that bilateral …