JBWere analyst Andrew Thompson says the markets are “under-pricing the risk of Donald Trump winning the election next month.

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"On August 5 a Boeing 737-400 on a flight from Paris attempted to land at Bergamo airport in Italy. After floating at a height of about seven metres for 14 seconds its wheels hit the ground 2km down the runway. With not enough runway left, it hit the perimeter fence at a speed of 109 knots, crossed two roads and a car park and came to rest sprawled across a two-lane highway."

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The New Zealand Labour Party and the centre left once again clean up the local body elections. Two ex-Labour ministers run the two largest cities.

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It’s an oft-dragged out fact that the average hatchback contains more computing power within its modest body than the lunar module which landed Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon.

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The Phoney War lasted from September 1939 to May 1940, during which time the Allied powers made no serious attempt to attack after declaring hostilities on Nazi Germany for invading Poland.

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“Well, we’ve got some choices,” Finance Minister Bill English says when contemplating next year’s budget.

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"All MMP elections have been horrendously close.

Just tens of thousands of votes stood in the way of prime ministers Phil Goff and David Cunliffe being real possibilities, and David Shearer would almost certainly have become prime minister in 2014 had the unions and the Labour left allowed him to lead the party to the election."

The broking practices of Forsyth Barr and Goldman Sachs came under fire at the High Court as fund manager Mark Warminger defended allegations of market manipulation.

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Peter Beck (39), founder of the Auckland-based, US-owned Rocket Lab has been named EY's New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year for 2016.

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For the eighth consecutive quarter, inflation in New Zealand is expected to undershoot the Reserve Bank’s target of 1-3%.

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