New Zealand’s record low interest rates are responsible for businesses paying bills at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis, an expert says.

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The latest Real Estate Institute figures show national annual house price inflation slowed to single digits in September for the first time since April 2015, though prices in Wellington continue to sky rocket.

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New data is more evidence employees are weak spot for cyber-security, says AUT's Dr Brian Cusack

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A Dutch management expert recently urged New Zealand companies in the food and tourism industries to look for tie-ups in other sectors to spread the country’s range of successful businesses.

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A privately-owned New Zealand food business which could be worth $100 million appears to be up for sale, although its managing director is clouding the matter.

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It wasn’t quite telling porkies, but Contact Energy’s chairman Sir Ralph Norris and chief executive Dennis Barnes certainly misled shareholders at Wednesday’s annual meeting.

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He may well have forgotten he ever said it, but in an August 1993 interview with NBR, Donald Trump talked about the World Trade Centre as a vulnerable terrorist target.

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Significant unrest continues across Ethiopia this week prompting the government to declare a state of emergency to help cool tensions. Meanwhile, raucous Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to kick US forces from his country and ordered a halt to future military exercises.

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