COMMENT: As much as we'd like his wall to block off the Trump-effect from the rest of the world, no one is immune in the still globalised world.

COMMENT: Why did the exchange pursue a hugely expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal claim?

COMMENT: Figures suggest NZ real estate prices are well out of line.

COMMENT: It's time New Zealand dropped its famed "number eight wire" mentality and "she'll be right" attitude.

COMMENT: The Garmin Fenix Chronos smartwatch looks like a Swiss designer watch, but is it worth the big price tag?

COMMENT: The emotional aspect of retirement is important when considering retirement savings, Carmel Fisher writes.

Kate Reid, general manager of Orion Health NZ, faints at the sight of blood.

COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.

COMMENT: It is a welcome development that Statistics NZ is now producing household living-cost price indexes.

COMMENT: Where can you start to find future sales - outside of your existing clients and advertising?

COMMENT: What are you going to do in your business so you get off to a fast start in 2017?

COMMENT: What does our local market provide in the co-working space, you might have wondered.

COMMENT: Wars, quakes, global warming and Donald Trump. That's 2016, an annus horribilis if there ever was one.

COMMENT: Key and his cohorts face a rethink on the Government's fiscal priorities to allow for another significant rebuild.

COMMENT: It's Fraud Awareness Week. Here's why we all need to look out for each other and those money traps out there.

COMMENT: Investors take a glass-half-full approach and focus on hopes spending will get US economy moving again.

COMMENT: If Trump carries out his trade and defence threats, NZ would face the risk of slower global economic growth, higher interest rates and fewer capital flows.

COMMENT: Many citizens have lost faith in the political and business establishment.

If Jacqui Nelson's motto for life and work could be summed up in a few words, it would be: just give it a crack.

COMMENT: Taking Donald Trump at his word, his election heralds a trade war, a recession, and a setback for climate change efforts.

COMMENT: How do you create an amazing experience for your customers?

COMMENT: Brace yourself for a global economy that is about to get horribly, horribly complicated, writes Liam Dann.

COMMENT: You don't need to be a world-famous franchisor to get value from attention to detail.

COMMENT: The Research and Education Advanced Network is a decade older, but it would preferable if it was almost 20, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: What's the best way to get debt-free?

COMMENT: Auditor-General's findings are a scathing assessment of the lack of transparency, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

COMMENT: With the US election race so tight we don't know what kind of world we will be wake up to on Thursday.

COMMENT: One of the most valuable assets a business has these days is data.

COMMENT: This week's jobs figures look fantastic, but they disguise flat real GDP per hour worked and an essentially stagnant economy.

COMMENT: But behind these deals are finance companies that make money from them. It's not charity.