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  • Cash for Candidates: how to spend it

    Welcome to BusinessDesk's daily podcast where you'll find a summary of the day's top stories. Ella Somers hosts today's episode. 

    • Cash for Candidates: How to Spend It
    • Seismic shifts in NZ defence and foreign policy
    • Red meat sector wants a 'proper adult conversation' about NZ/India trade

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    11 min
  • Global port behemoth registers entity in NZ

    In this episode, we cover the following:

    • Kāinga Ora's Te Mātāwai social housing complex – finally, something is finished;
    • Forbar picks its listed real estate winners;
    • Cooking the Books podcast: how one woman paid off $187,000 of debt in two years; and
    • Mediaworks' directors face fine for late accounts filing.

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    5 min
  • More cuts coming for Stuff staff

    On this episode we cover:

    • Jarden shakes off winter chills
    • PwC’s concerns over Maui Capital accounts
    • More staff cuts at Stuff
    • Mandatory emissions reporting could be an opportunity

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    7 min
  • Cash for Candidates: What’s to change?

    BusinessDesk's daily podcast that wraps the top stories for the day ahead. Today's episode is hosted by Riley Kennedy.

    On today's episode we discuss: 

    • Cash for Candidates: What’s to change?
    • Channel Infrastructure looks to a future in the air.
    • Auckland apartment builders tout in-fill potential
    • Advertisers launch net-zero emissions drive.

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    7 min
  • Are passive index funds actually active?

    In today's round of BusinessDesk Today's top stories, Murray Jones discusses:

    • Cash for Candidates: What do you get?
    • Are index funds really that passive?
    • Jarden predicts larger dividends to return
    • Lowdown in China’s manufacturing

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    7 min
  • How the biggest political donors spent $51 million dollars

    Welcome to BusinessDesk's daily podcast where you'll find a summary of the day's top stories. Ella Somers hosts today's episode:

     

    • How the biggest donors spent $51 million
    • The case against Auckland Airport’s new pricing: the double whammy
    • Why do we need a real-time payment system?

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    4 min
  • NZ screen industry may be at risk

    On today’s episode, Ben Moore discusses:

    • NZ film industry faces Australian threat
    • Education Perfect's restructure is not a 'cost-cutting process’
    • Kiri Allan case raises issue of mental health in the workplace
    • Peter Beck says NZ’s space industry “the envy of the world”

    For these stories and more, check https://businessdesk.co.nz/ 

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    7 min
  • Continuing seven-day isolation risking hosting Fifa world cup, tourist and hospitality groups say

    In today’s round of BusinessDesk Today’s top stories, Riley Kennedy discusses:

    • Tourist and hospitality groups worried about hanging on to a seven-day mandatory isolation rule for covid cases.
    • There are close to 21,000 projects listed on New Zealand’s construction books, valued at $357 billion.
    • Why a US founder moved his medtech startup to Auckland.
    • Next week’s jobs data

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    7 min
  • One giant leap for NZ Aerospace?

    In today's round of BusinessDesk Today's top stories, Murray Jones discusses:

    • iPredict granted stay of execution 
    • Government funding the National Aerospace Strategy
    • Analysis of the retirement sector
    • Thousands of projects on the New Zealand construction books

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    8 min
  • Can automated marketing save SMEs?

    In today's round of BusinessDesk Today's top stories, Murray Jones discusses:

    • Business of Waste: who holds these lucrative contracts?
    • Dileepa Fonseka’s analysis of what Kiri Allan’s resignation means for Chris Hipkins
    • NZ's first AI-based ad agency
    • Westpac report on the state of tourism in NZ

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    8 min

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