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Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Top 5 personal finance aps; Consumer cons; 8 questions to ask before spending; Work-based worries; Goal geeks

Full time jobs fall 13,000 in Dec qtr

Unemployment rate falls more than forecast to 6.3%, but mostly as young and old stopped looking for work; Jobs growth weaker than forecast

Power prices to rise sharply

Mighty River Power's Mercury raises power prices 5.8%, blames monopoly charges

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

SFO investigating Bullion Buyers as customers report money missing; Greeks fail to do debt deal as paper work missing; Germans post record exports

Cliff edge closer

More EU meetings, no resolution

Swap yields up across the curve

Selling pressure in NZ bonds with yields closing up 9 to 10bps

Fundamentals improve but NZD a little overstretched

ECB declines to help in Greek debt restructuring; Italian GDP negative

In Greek limbo

'Because only a small subcomponent of investors are actually taking the haircut and the official sector is not [the Greek debt relief plan] is not sufficient': S&P

Tracking the best currency rates

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Possible UK exit for BNZ's parent

BNZ's parent reviewing its UK business which has drained £1.5bln in 3 yrs v BNZ's NZ$1.1 bln of dividends

Govt lifts minimum wage 50 cts to $13.50 an hour

New minimum wage to be 40% of average public sector pay, 55% of average private sector pay

US investor makes 15% in first year on NZ farm purchases

Harvard’s NZ dairy farm unit, DF1, posts FY profit after buying Big Sky

Lower co. tax rate 'no silver bullet'

IRD Commissioner Bob Russell pours cold water on idea low company tax rate would boost foreign investment

Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

The upside of being fat, 40 and getting fired; Bear market recovery calculator; Why traffic violations are bad for your credit record; loan stress helplines; Coffee crutch 

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

Finally an RBA board member hates a high A$; Latin America fights back in currency wars; Afghanistan's hopelessness; What Germans really think; Dilbert

ASB sets 2nd covered bond issue

ASB issues NZ$200 million worth of seven-year covered bonds in private placement

Greek decision paralysis

Greek resolution drags on and on - RBA surprises markets

90 seconds at 9 am with BNZ

 NZ$ and US stocks firm on hopes for Greek rescue deal; Fitch warns of China hard landing; A$ up after surprise RBA decision to hold rates

Long yields feel upward pressure

Swap spreads widen; 10-year swap spreads now at 33bps

Greece chatter lights rocket under EUR

NZD/AUD 'fair value' falls 1c on RBA no-rate-cut decision

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