Christchurch: $2 billion damage – and counting

NBR's Christchurch reporter, Chris Hutching, gives his personal account of the quake.

Sharemarkets rallied around the world and a better-than-expected monthly jobs report erased almost all of August's slump in US stocks.

Allied Farmers managing director Rob Alloway has resigned, eight months after the group took on the stricken Hanover finance loan book.

This week we look at the good, the bad and the ugly from the failure of South Canterbury Finance.