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Stock Takes: Tech wreck?

Technology stocks have been through a roller-coaster of a ride this week leaving investors wondering if it's the start of a crash or just a temporary blip.

Inside Money: Why technology hasn't made finance cheaper yet

To date, technology has failed miserably to reduce the costs of finance to end consumers.

Brian Fallow: Monetary policy attack off target

A fundamental reason New Zealand interest rates and exchange rates are systematically higher than we might wish is that collectively we do not save enough.

Fran O'Sullivan: Control of prices major poll issue

Prices and who controls them is already an issue for this year's election, writes Fran O'Sullivan. The "market rules OK?" is not the kind of slogan that opposition parties are chanting.

Inside Money: Macquarie loses patience with $22.5m NZ experiment

KiwiSaver: Can I use it to start a business?

I originally joined KiwiSaver when it started as I was told the plan was that the money was for retirement but would also be available for your first house and/or first business.

Bob Jones: Female directorships - careful what you wish for

Women should think again about directorships, for far from trailing men, it's greatly to their credit that so few are debasing themselves in this way, writes Bob Jones.

Inside Money: Crowding-out and peer pressure

The new age of finance has arrived in the shape of the Financial Markets Conduct Act (FMC), which sets down rules for the fashionable technology-enabled activities of ‘crowd-funding’ and ‘peer-to-peer lending’.

Fran O'Sullivan: IMF dulls shine on China trade goal

John Key won't be thanking the IMF for taking a little bit of the shine off his new joint goal for bilateral trade between NZ and China to reach $30 billion by 2020, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Kiwisaver: Employer cash lags by a few months

I pay into a standard KiwiSaver scheme (3 per cent me, 2 per cent employer), the ASB KiwiSaver provider.

Liam Dann: Why our China challenge is too big for petty politics

It is unfortunate that some Government sloppiness about business relationships has clouded the coverage of John Key's trip to China, writes Liam Dann.

Fran O'Sullivan: Dinner invite measure of Key's stature

Presidential invitation a sign that China sees NZ not just as a trading partner but as a 'member of the family', writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Inside Money: Why KiwiSavers can't fly to Australia

Liam Dann: Why I forgive Fonterra

Dairy pervades the economy and the cultural landscape - our obsession with flat whites, free milk in schools and even our political scandals, as witnessed last week.

Diana Clement: Like it before it's popular

A chance meeting with a Filipino woman buying a $6 pig's head at the Mad Butcher got me thinking about less-than-popular cuts such as pork belly.

John Drinnan: High-risk PR strategy flies

Exceltium Corporate & Public Affairs owner Matthew Hooton is crowing from the rooftops after the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust won a victory against the body that decides its ratepayer funding.

Stock Takes: On the Edge

Pacific Edge has had a rollercoaster of a ride this week after receiving a please explain notice from the stock exchange about its recent share price decline and then an index notice to....

How much the rate rises will cost

Rate rises can seem a bit baffling, but the formula is pretty simple and the Reserve Bank has seldom been more explicit, writes NZ Herald business editor Liam Dann.