Happy Wednesday and welcome to your morning wrap of the latest political and business headlines from around the world.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer says the Financial Markets Authority has a "real opportunity for a ...

Wanaka Partners, associated with New York-based David Liptak, has offloaded 3. 8 million shares in Winton Land, diluting its ...

Critics of the Heartland-TSB Bank merger are gearing up to launch legal action if the proposal proceeds, after local ...

Major investors who took a punt on the Hawke’s Bay apple industry two years ago will be closely following the collapse of one ...

Government-owned AsureQuality has warned State-owned enterprise Minister Simeon Brown dividend payments will suffer once new ...

This week, China managed to do something Australia is incapable of doing. Its navy launched an intercontinental missile from ...

New Zealand’s S&P/NZX 50 index dodged a cool wind across most of Asia, with South Korea’s Kospi tumbling 8% as Samsung ...

Sky Television has sewn up the broadcast rights for the NRL for another seven years. The company told the stock exchange this ...

Several pipfruit businesses owned by businessman Wade Glass have been put into voluntary administration today, sparking ...

Financial difficulties at Booster Wine Group have bled into the investment manager’s NZX-listed Private Land & Property Fund ...

Efforts to sell the leasehold interest of multiple Rockit-growing orchards were scuttled when terms could not be agreed on.