Rotorua Museum is to take over running the facility’s in-house cafe from the existing business owner and lease holder.

OUTLOOK

CURRENCY: The NZ trade balance is forecast to be NZD supportive ($515m surplus expected). BOJ Governor Kuroda’s speech at 14:55 will drive major currencies, as will German IFO and US durable goods overnight.

RATES: NZ rates should open broadly unchanged this morning.

Comments from the NZ Road Transport Forum demonstrate a complete lack of leadership on truck driver safety, Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) said today.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today laid 48 Crimes Act charges against a group of individuals allegedly involved in a complex series of mortgage frauds.

BACS: Business and Community Shares is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the Funding Information Service to deliver accessible information on a wider platform for businesses, community organisations and individuals for funding and other services.

Federated Farmers is hugely relieved the meat export impasse in China has been resolved, but believes New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) need to take a hard look in the mirror.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand today invited submissions on an Application to include new maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the Food Standards Code for blueberries and raspberries.

The news that Wellington City Council is to vote to put $1 million towards the cost of resource consent to extend the airport runway is positive, says Wellington Employers’ Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley.

The formation of spin-out company Aduro Biopolymers by WaikatoLink Limited, the technology transfer organisation of the University of Waikato, has resulted in a finals place in the Commercial Deal Award in the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.

Deep sea technology that will provide some of the world’s most accurate and useful marine sustainability research is being launched today.

In a world-first, New Zealand fishing company Sealord has invested more than $750,000 in a new multi-frequency Acoustic Optical System (AOS).