Bank of New Zealand expects it will be months as opposed to weeks before it re-opens its Wellington office owned by CentrePort, which has hired Fletcher Building for the remediation job.

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Fonterra has increased its forecast farmgate milk price by 75c to $6/kgMS for the 2016/17 season.

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Wellington Council CEO Ken Lavery says it's likely more buildings will have to be "removed" by National Business Review

The Defence Capability Plan gives private industry a better idea about how it can assist the New Zealand Defence Force, says the NZ Defence Industry Association (NZDIA) chairman Bernie Diver.

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The US elected Donald Trump president on November 8. Despite his campaign talking points, the invisible hand of geopolitics will continue to direct his presidency. The president-elect’s introduction to international relations this week will present to him the left and right-hand boundaries of choices available in the most complex era in modern US history. Mr Trump is about to see reality.

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Publishing giant Pearson and Copyright Licensing NZ’s attempt to get documents from Rangitoto College to prove it had infringed copyright was “clutching at straws,” the school’s lawyer says.

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Whatever the Reserve Bank says about not bailing out banks which get into financial difficulty, the authorities are unlikely to allow small depositors to suffer losses, says a visiting economics professor at Stanford University in California.

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The financial fallout from the US presidential election continues, with projections for global growth increasing and the bond market collapsing.

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Tackling any conservative establishment is a tough ask, as Donald Trump would attest – gleefully, no doubt. But far removed from the Trump Tower this week I sat in a darkened Thai restaurant in a city more crowded than even Trump Town, speaking with a young and nervous lawyer about human trafficking, corruption and political infighting. Male, the Maldivian capital, is possibly the most crowded city in the world, crammed as it is on a five kilometer-wide atoll which, along with the rest of the Maldivian archipelago is never higher than three metres above the rising sea levels.

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Conflicting reports are emerging of how damaged Wellington's Centreport really is.

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