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Futurist predicts jobs loss

DaVinci Institute founder says action needed as 2 billion roles will go in digitised world.

Survey: Mixed Hobbit views

Kiwi fans of The Hobbit are critical of the Government's and even director Sir Peter Jackson's role in the film trilogy's industrial relations dispute, a survey shows.

English: House price rise is no surprise

A rise in household incomes that is greater than the average house price rise makes recent real estate market buoyancy unsurprising, says Bill English.

Home Depot brightens Wall St outlook

Office of future looks like home

Andrew Bascand: China set for continued, managed growth

Food prices fall in October

Seasonal falls in vegetable prices took the food price index down 0.6pc last month.

World shares drop on Greece worry

Online job ads down in October - Seek

New online job ad listings were down last month, according to a major New Zealand employment website.

Jobless spike stokes talk of OCR cut

Club entertainer awarded $8500 by Employment Authority

Unemployment rate up

New Zealand's unemployment rate has risen unexpectedly, increasing to 7.3 per cent - the highest since 1999.

Euro trouble, US fiscal cliff sends Wall St down

High debts a risk to dairy farmers

Brian Fallow: US President on edge of fiscal cliff

Looking at the US' fiscal numbers it is hard to escape the conclusion that the land of the free is also the land of the free-loader, writes Brian Fallow.

Mai Chen: Pike River fallout sign of royal commissions' influence

Sacked meat firm boss awarded $100k

An Invercargill meat company has been ordered to pay its former chief executive more than $100,000 in unpaid bonuses, compensation and other costs.

Wheeler warns against credit growth (+video)

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has warned excessive credit growth may trip up New Zealand's economic rebalancing and has singled out agricultural debt as being uncomfortably high.