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Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

24 May 12, 9:48am, Bernard Hickey
Bond investors flee Southern Europe to invest in 0% interest German bunds; Germany has see vays of making zee Greece stay in zee euro; Chinese coal imports collapse; Dilbert

Tuesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

22 May 12, 1:50pm, Bernard Hickey
Why rocket scientists are now algo traders; Is Facebook 2012's Lastminute.com?; European bank stress; Capitalism on trial; Dilbert

'Aggressive bank lending rates won't last long'

21 May 12, 1:18pm, Roger J Kerr
Roger J Kerr questions whether local moneymarkets are sending correct signals on future rate moves. Your view?

Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

21 May 12, 11:05am, Bernard Hickey
Stockpiles mount in slowing Chinese economy; China's Red Nobility of wealthy 'Princelings'; The amazing Bill Yan; CEOs trust communists most; Dilbert

Thousands get lower rates; what now?

20 May 12, 11:05am, Bernard Hickey
Bernard Hickey says you should use the 'savings' from lower mortgage interest rates to repay your loan faster. Your view?

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

23 May 12, 10:05am, David Chaston
Analysing the Greens/BERL critique; Better Life Index; 'It's here and it's unclear'; Decline; Magic; bloopers; Dilbert

Friday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

18 May 12, 9:03pm, Bernard Hickey
Markets expecting 'large scale intervention' to ward off 'Grexit' meltdown; 'Apocalypse fairly soon'; A 'Grexit would doom the euro'; Blue Men drum Donna Summer's 'I feel love'; Clarke and Dawe; Dilbert

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

17 May 12, 7:46pm, Bernard Hickey
NZ judged too easy on money launderers by EU; China's housing market in full reverse; Chinese state bank lending collapses; 'Grexit' seen as 'unthinkable, apocalyptic and Armadeddon-like'; A 12 year old Social Crediter; Dilbert

Wednesday's Top 10 with NZ Mint

16 May 12, 3:53pm, Bernard Hickey
Der Spiegel argues for 'Grexit'; How Greece might default; China may have purged internal security boss Zhou Yongkang; How UK, America (and NZ?) are turning Japanese; Dilbert

Can retailers adjust fast enough to survive?

16 May 12, 12:35am, Guest
Both store-centric retailers and goverments need to accept consumers are pushing sales online
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14 May 12, 1:11pm 'Fix now before rates rise,' says Kerr
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