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Nuclear energy stocks hit record highs on surging demand from AI
Financial Times: Amazon and Google deals to deploy reactors in sector’s revitalisation.

Mark Lister: Analysts predict brighter future for shares amid easing rates
OPINION: For these past four years New Zealand has been an underperformer.

Diana Clement: How to boost your returns amid falling term deposit rates
OPINION: The OCR cut bringing lower returns is the other side of the coin.

Market close: Power companies lift NZ sharemarket higher
The index ended the week on a positive note.

How Bitcoin made MicroStrategy a $65b company
Michael Saylor explains how his tech company buys billions in Bitcoin.

Matthew Hooton: Time for a 12.5% company tax rate?
OPINION: Glad-handing and dating services will never attract the major investment we need.

Stock Takes: Investors look to 2025, Rocket Lab shoots higher
The sharemarket has opted to ignore good news on the inflation and interest rates front.

Market close: NZ stocks end day lower; leading stocks take dive
Falling inflation couldn't perk up the sharemarket.

Opinion: How markets duck and dive depending on who wins the US presidency
OPINION: History can give us a steer on how markets react to US election winners.

Google orders modular nuclear reactors for its data centres
Financial Times: The tech giant signs a deal with Kairos Power for seven plants.

'A lot of money': Meridian CEO on how dry spell, low gas supply cost it $200m
The Meridian chief executive told shareholders it had been a challenging time.

Jarden Wealth Weekly: Why global exposure is critical for Kiwi investors
OPINION: Earthquakes, disease, and tech stocks can make a global perspective lucrative.

Market Close: Blue-chip stocks lead sharemarket lower
The New Zealand sharemarket opened the week with a fall of more than 0.5%.

'If someone leaves me something in their will, am I obliged to accept it?'
OPINION: Mary Holm on inheritances, shares for uni students and the red-hot CGT debate.

Market close: Large chunk of KMD Brands shares sold
The NZ sharemarket couldn't continue yesterday's momentum.

Market close: NZ sharemarket surges on OCR cut
The stocks benefiting from lower interest rates rose.

Wall St ends higher as investors wait on inflation data
Nvidia was the pick of the so-called Magnificent Seven.

Market close: Steady trading updates not enough to stop sharemarket falling
Markets faltered on the news that China was not delivering further economic stimulus.

Wall St indexes slip with rates, Middle East in focus
Investors are keeping an eye on inflation data, and ongoing Middle East tensions.

Market close: NZ stocks drift as investors sit tight
The NZ sharemarket fell to start the week ahead of the OCR announcement.

Mary Holm: How rental property would work with a capital gains tax
OPINION: Holm also tackles student loan controversy, staff shares and big dividends.

Market close: NZ stocks rise and another capital raise launched
The index finished a solid week’s work up 1.3%.

Patrick Phelps: A Green Party politician and a mining industry stooge walk out of a bar
OPINION: Those picking Remuera over Reefton, Wadestown over Westport shouldn't lecture.

Market close: Mood of investors improves as sharemarket rises
Hallenstein Glasson reached a three-year high.

Market close: NZ stocks fall as Middle East conflict, OCR decision hang over investors
The Iran missile attack on Israel sent US major indices falling, and NZ followed suit.

Market close: NZ sharemarket posts healthy gain
Another day of heavy trading as stocks rally on increasing business confidence.