Santa Monica street performer Davey Peterson was minding his own business, entertaining a small crowd of bemused onlookers when he was wiped out by a man on a hired e-scooter."AS I was lying there on the deck, I looked up and I... Source: NZ Herald Business News
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has warned that if Democrats regain political power in the midterm elections, the U.S. economy would essentially implode.Democrats, he insists, would push tax hikes and environmental restrictions... Source: NZ Herald Business News
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's anti-trust watchdog is launching a probe into a planned joint venture by German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp and India's Tata Steel, saying it might reduce competition.The two companies said in June... Source: NZ Herald Business News
New Zealand's largest-ever survey of gender representation across all levels of the workforce has revealed the extent of the imbalance at top of the corporate ladder.The new Diversity Report, published by Champions for Change, surveyed... Source: NZ Herald Business News
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.Tuesday's... Source: NZ Herald Business News
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A spy chief says Australia's critical infrastructure including electricity grids, water supplies and hospitals could not have been adequately safeguarded if Chinese-owned telecommunications giants Huawei... Source: NZ Herald Business News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has imposed restrictions on technology exports to a state-supported Chinese semiconductor maker, citing national security grounds amid a mounting tariff battle.The controls imposed Monday... Source: NZ Herald Business News
Better targeting of the government's winter energy subsidy could meet all the electricity costs of the country's most vulnerable 100,000 households, Mercury NZ says.The power retailer says more must be done to assist the country's... Source: NZ Herald Business News
Some wines, fizzy drinks, sugary shelf-stable fruit juices and cordial syrups are fast falling out of favour with New Zealand grocery shoppers.Last year Kiwis combined spent $3.3 billion on beverages in supermarkets alone, up from... Source: NZ Herald Business News
BRUSSELS (AP) — The time isn't yet ripe to tweak Europe's clocks.European transport ministers meeting in Austria decided Monday to take a little more to work out how best to end the switch to summer time and back.The European... Source: NZ Herald Business News