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Rich Lister's wife wants top QC dumped from ex-hubby's side

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| Georgina Bond | Monday May 20, 2013

Graph of the week: Budget 2013, complacency and household debt

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| Rob Hosking | Monday May 20, 2013

SkyCity to pay $5m for Queenstown’s Wharf Casino

Monday May 20, 2013

The deal adds 74 electronic gaming machines and six gaming tables to its existing operations in the resort town.

World week ahead: central bank watch amid records

Margreet Dietz | Monday May 20, 2013

Wall Street seems destined to push to fresh highs again this week as investors continue to bet on both an improving economic outlook.

Kiwi hits 8½-month low as improving US economy spurs QE speculation

Tina Morrison | Monday May 20, 2013

Americans felt better about their economic and financial prospects, with consumer sentiment at its highest in nearly six years.

Greens suggest 15% surcharge on foreign house buyers

NBR staff | Sunday May 19, 2013 | 25 comments

Planning laws stacked against first home buyers - English

Planning laws stacked against first home buyers - English

NBR staff | Sunday May 19, 2013 | 7 comments

Current planning laws are “explicitly designed to drive up housing values”, Finance Minister says.

Greens suggest 15% surcharge on foreign house buyers

ComCom identifies companies liable for $50m telco levy - two points of contention

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| Chris Keall | Monday May 20, 2013

BNZ boss wants tax changes to boost savings' appeal vs housing and property

NBR staff | Sunday May 19, 2013 | 5 comments

Thorburn also calls for compulsory KiwiSaver and higher contributions.

Breakfast in schools: it just doesn't work

Eric Crampton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 98 comments

GUEST COMMENT: Studies show no great benefit from public funding, such as the programme our government is poised to unveil in a fortnight.

4G speed thrills

Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

the good news, and the bad, as NBR takes Vodafone's superfast mobile service for a spin around Auckland.

Technology: An Alternative Budget

Rod Drury | WEEKEND REVIEW | 25 comments

GUEST COMMENT Budget 2013 makes good progress in reducing New Zealand's debt, but lacks the big ideas for driving growth. Here are 10:

Peter Griffin: Detail slight on R&D tax deductions

NBR People Scene

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Latest photo galleries from Norrie Montgomery.

Google Glass 'makes you look like a complete dork'

Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW | 7 comments

At the Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, Christchurch man Ben Kepes raises satorial concerns about the search giant's smart glasses - and discusses privacy concerns raised by Congress.

Aaron Gilmore debacle put Budget at risk

Matthew Hooton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 2 comments

UPDATED with table.

BUDGET 2013: Key can now return to his personal priority – helping the underclass

Confessions of a former leftie

Rodney Hide | WEEKEND REVIEW | 46 comments

HIDESIGHT I believed people couldn’t be left alone to do as they please: they were too greedy, the market too capricious, resources too precious and the planet too fragile.

Meridian IPO needs to be 'clean' to fly

David Williams | WEEKEND REVIEW | 3 comments

Investors will be looking for certainty from the state-owned power company's IPO. The hot issues:

Meridian mega-float to fund rail, hospitals, schools, irrigation

On whether Angelina Jolie made the right decision to have a double mastectomy

Brian Edwards | WEEKEND REVIEW

Those who oppose voluntary euthanasia argue the sanctity of human life; Roughan seems to argue the sanctity of human flesh.

NBR Weekly Biz Quiz

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Test your knowlege with 10 rapid-fire multichoice questions.

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Was the government right to shelve the MMP review (which recommended a 4% threshold, and abolishing the coat-tail rule)?

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Symbol	Price	Change
BTU	0.23	0.01	4.55%
LPC	2.80	0.10	3.70%
CRP	0.35	0.01	2.94%
OGC	2.22	0.04	1.83%
ANZ	36.50	0.65	1.81%
CEN	5.40	0.08	1.50%

Sym	Price	Change
USD	0.8093	0.0032	0.40%
AUD	0.8279	-0.0001	-0.01%
EUR	0.6300	0.0028	0.45%
GBP	0.5323	0.0007	0.13%
HKD	6.2801	0.0183	0.29%
JPY	82.5780	-0.6380	-0.77%

Commodity	Price	Change	Time
Gold Index	1360.1	-26.220	2013-05-17T00:
Oil Brent	103.7	1.300	2013-05-17T00:
Oil Nymex	96.0	0.860	2013-05-17T00:
Silver Index	22.3	-0.307	2013-05-17T00:

Symbol	Open	High	Last	%
NZX 50	4636.0	4636.2	4611.1	-0.29%
NASDAQ	3483.4	3499.2	3465.2	0.97%
DAX	8356.3	8408.6	8369.9	0.34%
DJI	15234.8	15357.4	15233.2	0.80%
FTSE	6687.8	6726.9	6687.8	0.53%
HKSE	23110.2	23163.0	23044.2	0.17%
NI225	14926.4	15157.3	15037.2	0.67%

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8	Russell McVeagh
9	Inland Revenue Department
10	PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand
11	Bell Gully
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13	Fonterra
14	KPMG
15	Victoria University of Wellington Library
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20	Datacom
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24	CCH New Zealand
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27	Mighty River Power Limited
28	Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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30	NZTE
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33	Vodafone NZ
34	2 Degrees
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36	Aon New Zealand
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38	Callaghan Innovation
39	Chapman Tripp
40	College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury
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42	Crombie Lockwood NZ
43	Dispute Resolution Services Limited
44	Ernst & Young
45	Genesis Energy
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