Health experts want better labelling on products after the boutique dairy company Lewis Road Creamery understated the sugar content in its new Breakfast Drinks.

Fletcher Building has asked for a trading halt of its shares and capital notes on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges.

The Reserve Bank has held its cash rate unchanged as expected amid subdued inflation and moderate economic growth.

ASB Bank has posted a bigger half-year profit because of higher customer deposits and improving margins.

Global dairy prices have risen for the third time this year and are now at the highest point in four months.

The unemployment rate has dropped to 4.5 percent, the lowest level since 2008.

The New Zealand sharemarket has ended the day a bit battered and bruised, but it escaped the mauling that savaged other markets earlier in the week.

New Zealand’s sharemarket has immediately fallen two percent after opening after the Waitangi Day closure. Follow our live updates.

The New Zealand economy should survive the current fall in world sharemarkets, finance minister Grant Robertson says.

Asian markets plunged on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks following heavy falls in the US.