In today’s business news – Inverstore makes a smaller full year profit, and the Commerce Commission urges for feedback on a new regulatory regime for fibre networks.

The insurance company has returned to profit as higher premiums, better weather in the Pacific and its digital transformation, begin to pay off.

Investors have a wariness about auditors who check company finances because they believe they lack independence and there is not enough competition in the sector.

In today’s business news – Steel and Tube has lowered its full year earnings forecast and growth in the service sector continues to slow down.

The property investor’s result comes as it continues to reinvest in its Auckland retail and office properties.

The country’s largest power company is easing off its plan to stop using coal completely by 2030.

The US has reached a deal with Canada to lift tariffs on steel and aluminium imports in a move that could lead to approval for a new North American trade deal.

In today’s business news – the manufacturing sector continues to expand, wholesale inflation falls and ASB forecasts a slowing economy.

The Reserve Bank has censured the country’s largest bank, ANZ, for not properly calculating its risk and ordered it to increase its capital.

New Zealand’s four biggest banks will continue to honour cheques, even though Kiwibank is scrapping the service.