An investment analyst says our market's largely resilient to the latest international volatility, but will likely drop two-to-three percent after falls overseas.

Mark Lister from Craig's Investment Partners, says our share market's filled with stable and low risk businesses, and we'll trade through this latest drop.

He says after recent gains on the Dow Jones, this "big wobble" has just put the market back to where it was a couple of months ago.

Lister told Mike Hosking the reason for this drop was actually a good thing - strong US wage growth data.

"Economically everything is very, very robust. This is very much limited to Wall Street rather than main street."

LISTEN ABOVE AS MARK LISTER SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

The honey stealing business is worth millions of dollars and is growing as Organised thieves target the hives and manufacturers of the golden product.

Now the offending is becoming increasingly brazen with hundreds of kilograms of honey stolen at any one time, before being on-sold to a black market of local and international buyers.

Apiculture New Zealand CEO Karin Kos told Mike Hosking it used to be isolated.

"We are concerned that clearly there is more organisation around it and it is more regular and yeah, people know what they are doing."

Kos says the thieves target isolated areas, and go in at night - loading the beehives onto trucks.

Beekeper Simon Sun told the Herald his company has been robbed by professional thieves.

His company at Azurelife Internationa had 480kg of ready-for-export manuka honey stolen in a brazen theft in June 2016.

The cost of the shipment was more than $33,000.

 

"I found the door was open, I immediately saw the cables to the burglar alarm and the CCTV cameras had been cut," Sun told a court last month.

He had become yet another victim in an increasing attractive market for criminals.

Rural New Zealand has been hit hardest, with criminals targeting the honey at its source - by stealing the hives from the beekeepers.

- additional reporting Sam Hurley, NZ Herald

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Calls for schoolkids to be taught more about Waitangi Day.

Auckland University Maori Studies professor Margaret Mutu says a poor understanding of history is part of the reason Maori are still so badly represented in some statistics.

She told Chris Lynch people would want to do more to solve the problem, if they were taught New Zealand history from an early age.

"It's the sort of thing you need to be introducing into primary schools, so every New Zealander understands the founding document of this country."

It's not a recession and the market will recover.

This from an American investment strategist who says there have been 21 declines of between 10 and 20 per cent on the Dow Jones since World War Two.

Sam Stovall told Mike Hosking amazingly, it only takes about four months after these declines for the market to break even again.

"I keep saying to investors don't be your portfolio's worst enemy by turning a paper loss into an actual loss."

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The parents of a 22-year-old man who died after he used synthetic drugs, have teamed up with an Auckland MP to push for tougher penalties for those who supply the toxic substances.

Calum Jones died at his family home in Henderson in September.

West Harbour man Jonathan Gordon has been charged with supplying a psychoactive substance, and is back in court this week.

Calum Jones' father Lewis is supporting National MP Simeon Brown's private members Bill before parliament.

"We would like to see someone step forward and actually improve the consequences to stop a lot of the underground manufacturing of these synthetic products and something done from a class C to class A."

LISTEN ABOVE AS LEWIS JONES SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

There is concern about the Queen's flock of swans at Windsor, after 20 have died from bird flu.

Around the same number are very sick and in the process of dying.

Seven of the dead birds were taken away for testing and five of them tested positive for avian influenza.

The Queen's Marker of the Swans, David Barber told Mike Hosking he's been told the disease will gradually die out after a couple of weeks, but says it's still concerning.

"It is a worry to us, we are losing swans which the public love here they are classed as royal birds and it is in a very important place."

Barber says tourists from all over the world go to Windsor to look at the swans.

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A market commentator says the Dow's latest drop is a small dip from a massive high.

JMIS director Andrew Kelleher says told Mike Hosking the drop is relatively small, on a percentage basis.

"A thousand points when the Dow's at 26,000 is not the same as a thousand points when the Dow's at 12,000 so I can absolutely tell you that it doesn't fit into the top 20 falls of all time."

LISTEN ABOVE AS ANDREW KELLEHER SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

A market commentator says the Dow's latest drop is a small dip from a massive high.

JMIS director Andrew Kelleher says told Mike Hosking the drop is relatively small, on a percentage basis.

"A thousand points when the Dow's at 26,000 is not the same as a thousand points when the Dow's at 12,000 so I can absolutely tell you that it doesn't fit into the top 20 falls of all time."

LISTEN ABOVE AS ANDREW KELLEHER SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

An investment analyst says our market's largely resilient to the latest international volatility, but will likely drop two-to-three percent after falls overseas.

Mark Lister from Craig's Investment Partners, says our share market's filled with stable and low risk businesses, and we'll trade through this latest drop.

He says after recent gains on the Dow Jones, this "big wobble" has just put the market back to where it was a couple of months ago.

Lister told Mike Hosking the reason for this drop was actually a good thing - strong US wage growth data.

"Economically everything is very, very robust. This is very much limited to Wall Street rather than main street."

LISTEN ABOVE AS MARK LISTER SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

The honey stealing business is worth millions of dollars and is growing as Organised thieves target the hives and manufacturers of the golden product.

Now the offending is becoming increasingly brazen with hundreds of kilograms of honey stolen at any one time, before being on-sold to a black market of local and international buyers.

Apiculture New Zealand CEO Karin Kos told Mike Hosking it used to be isolated.

"We are concerned that clearly there is more organisation around it and it is more regular and yeah, people know what they are doing."

Kos says the thieves target isolated areas, and go in at night - loading the beehives onto trucks.

Beekeper Simon Sun told the Herald his company has been robbed by professional thieves.

His company at Azurelife Internationa had 480kg of ready-for-export manuka honey stolen in a brazen theft in June 2016.

The cost of the shipment was more than $33,000.

 

"I found the door was open, I immediately saw the cables to the burglar alarm and the CCTV cameras had been cut," Sun told a court last month.

He had become yet another victim in an increasing attractive market for criminals.

Rural New Zealand has been hit hardest, with criminals targeting the honey at its source - by stealing the hives from the beekeepers.

- additional reporting Sam Hurley, NZ Herald

LISTEN ABOVE AS KARIN KOS SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING