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Daily ShareChat: Contact Energy By Jenny Ruth  -   12 Mar, 5:30am Despite Contact Energy's first-half results being lower than expected, "we now feel the value proposition is too strong to ignore," says Macquarie Equities analyst Stephen Hudson... More »

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MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares slip; Warehouse down after result, PGC gains
12 Mar, 6:15pm
New Zealand shares fell, as Warehouse Group posted weaker first-half operating earnings and forecast a flat full year. Pyne Gould Corp. advanced after its Marac unit gained admissions to the extended guarantee scheme... More »

Strategic Finance in receivership
12 Mar, 6:00pm
Strategic Finance is this evening in the hands of receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers, ending moratorium arrangements that have been in place since December 2008... More »

Sumitomo moves to take 20% of Nufarm, gaining Australasian farm chemicals
12 Mar, 5:50pm
Nufarm, the Australian-headquartered worldwide manufacturer of farm chemicals, has received a formal shareholders’ offer from Japan’s Sumitomo to acquire up to 20% of its shares at A$14 each... More »

NZ food innovation initiative aims to fast-track new product commercialisation
12 Mar, 3:10pm
Small and medium-sized food and beverage companies will have access to state of the art research and development facilities with a new government initiative, Food Innovation Network New Zealand... More »

Weekly Diary for Monday 15th March 2010
12 Mar, 2:09pm
A summary of dividend dates, company meetings, and other important information on NZX listed companies... More »

Accommodation providers experience best month ever in January
12 Mar, 1:30pm
More Kiwis holidaying at home and more tourists staying longer has boosted January’s short-term commercial accommodation total guest nights by 4% compared to the previous January... More »

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	Big money on the mend By David Chaplin Good news was released this week, we, the taxpayers, creamed almost $300 million out of financial institutions during the recently-forgotten global financial crisis (GFC). In a release announcing the end of the government guarantee for wholesale funds,... More »
	Think Global: It’s a wrap (Jan/Feb) By Wayne Lochore Things are moving so fast in the markets and global economies that most writers I follow are complaining of the same thing – there is so much of value being written that it is near impossible to keep up.  When top writers such as John Mauldin and... More »

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