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📢 Global marketer a2 Milk plunged more than 10% on the announcement that China’s birth rate last year was the lowest on record, and the New Zealand sharemar...
NZ sharemarket starts week down 1%
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January 19, 2026 at 5:22 AM
📢 Finance Minister Nicola Willis says Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Anna Breman should have spoken to the Government before signing a global statement in s...
Nicola Willis questions Reserve Bank Governor Anna Breman’s Powell judgment call
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January 19, 2026 at 3:52 AM
📢 Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has appointed Anna Curzon to the board as a non-executive director. Curzon will fill the vacancy following the retirement of...

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Fisher & Paykel Healthcare appoints Anna Curzon as new non-executive director
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January 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
📢 Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump threatened European Nato allies supporting Greenland with tariffs starting on February 1 of how much?Recently releas...

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QuiznessDesk, Monday, Jan 19
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January 18, 2026 at 8:22 PM
📢 On The Money: Passports, uncharted rocks, road love and more ...This story was published on Sat, 26 Apr 2025.If you doubt whether South African-born Pierre van...

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Best of BusinessDesk: On The Money
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January 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
📢 "I'm going to say this quite unashamedly, I don't like rules, and what do I mean by that? I mean that I am concerned when rules are treated as an e...

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Best of BusinessDesk: My Net Worth part 4
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January 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
📢 New Zealand-founded email signature provider Crossware has acquired Germany's largest email signature company in a multimillion-dollar deal, as it seeks to...

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Crossware buys Germany's biggest email signature firm in EU expansion
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January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
📢 The $307 million price tag for its North Island operations might have been so material to Synlait Milk that it required a shareholder vote, but it isn’t e...

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Abbott Laboratories: Who is the newcomer to Pōkeno?
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January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
📢 As chair of the Global Network of Director Institutes, I have had the opportunity to travel and learn from governance professionals around the world.One of the...
Five governance issues for 2026
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January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
📢 New Zealand’s biggest banks expect the consumer price index to print about 3% for the full-year 2025, when it is issued on Friday next week, but doubt thi...
Banks see 2025 inflation at c.3.0%
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January 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
📢 The tension between rapid growth and decarbonisation is becoming a major challenge for freight and logistics operators in New Zealand and Australia.Mainfreight...
Carbon Catch-Up: Mainfreight and Freightways on growth and decarbonising freight
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January 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 The Government has yet to decide how it will take the political heat out of Auckland's housing intensification plans, but reduced upzoning in the suburbs lo...

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Suburbs the likely target as Government dials down Auckland density plans
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January 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 In the first weeks of 2026, the world might seem to be going to hell in a handcart, but KiwiSaver investors are being urged to hold their nerve.Geopolitically,...
KiwiSaver investors urged to stay the course amid global ructions
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January 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 The Government is still looking for a chair for the Electricity Authority after a plan to install Craig Stobo in the position fell apart.BusinessDesk understand...

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Stobo investigation stalls Electricity Authority leadership plan
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January 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 By Sadanad DhumePresident Trump’s tariffs are a blunt tool, but they may be pushing India to reform its overregulated economy. Since last August, many Ind...
India’s timid economic reforms
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January 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 By Samuel AshworthFor as long as humans have been making capital-L Literature, people have been writing its obituary. Ten years ago, the author Kelsey McKi...

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Today’s writers are too chummy. They should start brawling again
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January 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 Black Grace dance company: Still brilliant after 30 years(published March 29)For the past 30 years, Black Grace has been bringing a Pacific Island and Māori per...
Best of BusinessDesk: Top theatre and music reviews from 2025
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January 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 "I'm going to say this quite unashamedly, I don't like rules, and what do I mean by that? I mean that I am concerned when rules are treated as an e...
Best of BusinessDesk: My Net Worth part 4
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January 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 By William A GalstonIn a sign of the stark conflict between Europe and the US, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Danish leaders on Wednesday to disc...

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Greenland or NATO? Trump can’t have both
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January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 By Liam DenningFor a company that sells cars, Tesla Inc’s US$1.5 trillion (NZ$2.6t) valuation puts it in a league of its own. The stock is seemingly immun...
Tesla’s greatest threat is being boring
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January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 TV glow-up: WiZ lights deliver big ambience on a budget(Published on Nov 22 2025)In the 60s, funky lamps were all the rage. Bright lights were reserved for the...
Best of BusinessDesk: Top tech reviews from 2025
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January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 On The Money: Passports, uncharted rocks, road love and more ...This story was published on Sat, 26 Apr 2025.If you doubt whether South African-born Pierre van...
Best of BusinessDesk: On The Money
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January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📢 Ebos Group and Fletcher Building both had strong bounces as the New Zealand sharemarket closed the week with a solid gain of nearly 0.5%.The S&P/NZX 50 Inde...

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NZ sharemarket up 1.3% for the year
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January 16, 2026 at 5:12 AM
📢 Dual-listed Ryman Healthcare delivered a solid third-quarter trading update, and its guidance is “achievable”, said Forsyth Barr analysts.Earlier th...

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Ryman Healthcare’s guidance is achievable – analysts
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January 16, 2026 at 2:52 AM
📢 A former Queenstown backpacker hostel has sold for $31 million to Hong Kong-based private equity real estate firm Gaw Capital Partners.CBRE hotels, valuation an...
Base Backpackers Queenstown sold to Gaw Capital of Hong Kong for $31 million
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January 16, 2026 at 12:22 AM