Strong demand for industrial property has helped Goodman Property Trust make a strong full year profit, although it has fallen from last year’s record result.

Zespri’s sales to Japan have grown by 30 percent in the past two seasons, with the Japanese kiwifruit market worth about $500 million last season.

Infratil, which owns Trustpower, Wellington Airport and NZ Bus, has reported a sharply lower profit after the previous year’s result was boosted by asset sales.

Surging mobile phone and broadband usage has produced a maiden profit for the country’s number three telco, 2degrees.

Medical experts have given the Australian government a blast because too much coal being burnt.

Global dairy prices have made further gains overnight.

New Zealand’s housing market has a 40 percent chance of going bust in the next two years, according to the investment bank.

Some earthquake-affected businesses are very close to collapse, a new group set up to advocate for them says.

Operations will stop at the port tomorrow night as officials work to determine New Zealanders’ level of exposure to the massive global cyber attack.

Bad weather and holidays have knocked activity in the services sector.