The Official Cash Rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 2.50 percent.

o Dr Bollard left the cash rate at 2.5% as widely expected, but in a surprise to many, shrugged off the relative hawkishness of the RBA permeating the market in the last 48 hours.

At worse retail is flat-lining. We're certainly not freefalling.

Arthur Pitcher, General Manager of SkyCity Hamilton, has joined the Opportunity Hamilton Board. Opportunity Hamilton is the city's new economic development agency.

The team at SBS Bank is ready to cheer on the Tasman Makos as they launch their Air New Zealand Cup campaign against Taranaki at Lansdowne Park, in Blenheim, tonight (NB:Thursday 30 July).

Business NZ has welcomed steps towards accurate reporting on sustainability.Statistics NZ today published Measuring NZ's progress using a sustainable development approach, a stocktake of New Zealand's natural and human resources.

The Reserve Bank has left the Official Cash Rate unchanged at 2.5 percent this morning. The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) say that this move has effectively delayed further action on our economic recovery for a further six

The RBNZ struck a surprisingly dovish chord in today's OCR review, reiterating that the OCR could still move lower in coming quarters and that it would remain at or below current levels until the latter part of 2010.

31 July 2009 - Since listing a job on Builderscrack.co.nz seeking Kiwi tradesmen to renovate her 3 storey house near Paris, NZ expat Pauline Hampshire has been overwhelmed by the amount of interest she has had.

In our credit driven lives we need money, so we need the banks. In our demand for transportation and consumer goods we need oil, so we need the oil companies.

DOGS are man's best friend, but those in need of more "intimacy" can now get their own sex doll.

SCRUFFY dog found in filthy backyard nine years after going missing is finally heading home.

Expenses claimed by members of Parliament will be publicly available every three months, the Prime Minister, the Hon John Key, and the Speaker of the House, the Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, have announced.

Defence Minister Wayne Mapp will represent New Zealand at the third triennial France-Oceania Summit in Noumea on Friday 31 July. "France is an important player in the Pacific region," said Dr Mapp.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has told Parliament today that Pharmac's planning is well advanced on how it will spend tens of millions of dollars in new medicines funding. Mr Ryall said, "$31 million of the new money has been added

The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has expressed its profound disappointment at the government's failure to back better protection for New Zealand's endangered marine animals. Last evening National and ACT combined to throw out the Marine Animals Protection Reform Bill.

The Council of Trade Unions today deplored the threatening of three corrections officers by ACT MP David Garrett as they made a submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee hearing on prison privatisation.

Two Members' bills on the topical issues of benefit review and international non-aggression have been picked in the Parliamentary Ballot today.

This year's 73rd National Party annual conference being held in Christchurch will be a celebration of a number of historic achievements for the Party, says outgoing National Party President Judy Kirk.

Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove has laid a breach of privilege complaint against ACT MP David Garrett for his comments at the law and order select committee yesterday.