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Daily ShareChat: Abano Healthcare By Jenny Ruth  -   9 Feb, 5:30am Abano Healthcare's first-half results show the company's underlying businesses have been hurt by the tough economic conditions but the results are still "surprisingly robust," given the vulnerablilty of many of the businesses to discretionary spending, sa... More »

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'Sweet spot' for stock markets over, but still a better bet in 2010: AMP Capital
9 Feb, 4:30pm
The “sweet spot” for stock markets is over, says AMP Capital Investors, though they’re still a better bet than bonds and cash, as policy makers wind down the stimulus measures brought in to fight the worst recession New Zealand's been in... More »

New Zealand's dairy herd now matches human population, wine output soars, government figures show
9 Feb, 3:30pm
Dairy cows are up, sheep down and beef cattle numbers are about the same over the past year, according to Statistics New Zealand’s latest assessment of the nation’s primary sector... More »

Key takes middle road in whacking residential investors
9 Feb, 2:40pm
There will be no land tax and no tax on imputed rental property income, Prime Minister John Key announced in his scene-setting speech kicking off the parliamentary year, this afternoon... More »

COMMENT: Good politics, but will it fix a 'broken' tax system?:
9 Feb, 2:30pm
Prime Minister John Key is obsessed with two things about the New Zealand economy. One is the fact that productive industry has been shrinking as proportion of the economy for more than five years... More »

Key kicks for touch on property tax
9 Feb, 2:29pm
The government has ruled out almost all the property tax changes proposed by the Tax Working Group... More »

NZ financial regulations should play into Tower's hands, investors told
9 Feb, 1:00pm
Tower expects changes in regulations for the insurance and financial services industries to be advantageous for its risk insurance and wealth management business, shareholders were told at their annual meeting... More »

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	SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Foreshore, seabed … aaagh! By Pattrick Smellie Early reports from the hui of Maori and national leaders at Waitangi suggest a typically turbulent exchange, piqued this year by signs of how the John Key-led National-Maori Party government continues to change the way politics could be played in New... More »
	Property tax – who are the unintended consequences? By David Chaplin As the vitriol builds against property investors it’s becoming increasingly clear that there will be many innocent bystanders injured by the mooted changes to tax law. Whatever merit there may be in rooting out the landlords who are rorting the... More »

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