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Accounting software company Xero says it has made significant progress in Britain but acknowledges it still needs to make better progress in the United States before it can go ahead with a Nasdaq listing. On Thursday, the company announced a significant milestone of having passed a million paying subscribers.

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Peter Dunne doesn’t believe the amendments to the RMA are done and dusted. In fact, the United Future leader is sceptical that the latest deal between National and the Maori Party, which would allow unelected iwi to co-govern in deciding on resource consent issues at council tables around the country, will hold.

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It has been over 12 months since the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 was enacted and, in that time, there has been a lot of positive activity within companies to improve their health and safety performance. Much of this activity has been at the senior management or board level as directors and CEOs come to grips in understanding their officer duties under the act. There has been an increase in the quantity and quality of information boards have been receiving and this has generated a lot of positive discussion at board level.

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President Trump says he has ended the “war on coal.” But he hasn’t yet stopped the campaign favoured in academic circles to stop investment in the fossil fuel industry, which has plenty of decades ahead of it and remains essential to modern life. These campaigners have found willing targets in university endowment and sovereign wealth funds. In New Zealand, KiwiSaver fund managers are being pressured to invest only in “ethical” industries without the approval of the individuals who own these funds.

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Importers and exporters in Australia and New Zealand mostly believe free-trade agreements have had no impact on their businesses. The survey was conducted by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) of about 1500 businesses in Australia and New Zealand which are engaged in overseas trade.

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The Commerce Commission's concerns that a merger of dominant news publishers NZME and Fairfax New Zealand would stifle the number of voices in the media is a backward-looking assessment that would be "illogical and incomplete", the publishers said. The regulator has pushed out making a decision on the merger for a third time after getting "further analysis and expert evidence" from the media companies and will now rule on May 2, it said in a statement.

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KiwiSaver provider Simplicity has passed the $100 million mark in assets 18 months ahead of its own targets. The online-only fund launched last August operates on a non-profit basis with a single fee rate of 0.65% compared with an industry average of 1.34%.

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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to “end the war on coal” and create millions of jobs, according to a White House statement. The "energy independence" executive order directs his administration to undo a host of Obama-era environmental actions, according to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.

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Synlait Milk’s underlying first-half net profit rose 23.6% to $15 million as it maintained its margins on canned infant formula despite some slippage in margins on other products. The company reported a 4% rise in statutory net profit to $10.6 million for the six months ended January.

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