Liquidators make first payment to unsecured creditors after secret settlement with directors.
Meanwhile, importers are under increased pressures from exchange rates.
Fletcher wanted secrecy but Steel and Tube insists there’s no animosity.
Services sector lifts in September while manufacturing declines.
Electricity prices are high as hydro lakes run low.
The shift away from discount sales has not yet paid off.
Mycoplasma bovis hysteria leaves behind unpaid farmers.
Petrol prices, rising rates and the lower kiwi are the major culprits
NBR Rich Lister's software company trades IPO stock on the NYSE to a valuation of $4.6b.
Expert witness casts doubt on $33m supply arrangement.
