COMMENT: Building materials company Boral is spending A$3.5 billion to acquire Utah-based construction materials group Headwaters.

COMMENT: In the manual of life no-one says you'll be sandwiched between children and elderly parents.

COMMENT: Like any building with concrete cancer, trust in a big idea can seem very solid right up until the moment of collapse.

COMMENT: Even a little extra payment will be a help for family facing a terminal illness.

COMMENT: There have been a number of developments in involving potential control changes to NZX-listed companies.

COMMENT: Juha Saarinen reviews the MacBook Pro and the Touch Bar.

It was the throngs of people in Mission Bay, hunched over their phones, that got to Kevin McDonald.

COMMENT: Treasury's newly updated projections for the long-run outlook look OK for a few years, but then it gets ugly.

COMMENT: Momentous times for media, including Facebook - even if it refuses to accept that it is a media company.

COMMENT: Four ways to tell whether you are really okay with imperfection.

COMMENT: Looking for socially responsible funds? There are more than ever to choose from.

COMMENT: Australia has enjoyed an uninterrupted and unprecedented run of economic growth - but now it's holding the country back.

COMMENT: As much as we'd like his wall to block off the Trump-effect from the rest of the world, no one is immune in the still globalised world.

COMMENT: If your house burns down and the insurance company doesn't pay, it's likely to affect you financially for much of the rest of your life.

COMMENT: It's time New Zealand dropped its famed "number eight wire" mentality and "she'll be right" attitude.

COMMENT: Figures suggest NZ real estate prices are well out of line.

COMMENT: Why did the exchange pursue a hugely expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal claim?

COMMENT: The Garmin Fenix Chronos smartwatch looks like a Swiss designer watch, but is it worth the big price tag?

COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.

COMMENT: It is a welcome development that Statistics NZ is now producing household living-cost price indexes.

COMMENT: 'Blinking' words sound important, but nobody knows what they really mean.

COMMENT: For many a nightmare has begun and the name of the beast is Donald Trump, Brent Sheather writes.

COMMENT: Where can you start to find future sales - outside of your existing clients and advertising?

COMMENT: What are you going to do in your business so you get off to a fast start in 2017?

COMMENT: What does our local market provide in the co-working space, you might have wondered.

COMMENT: Wars, quakes, global warming and Donald Trump. That's 2016, an annus horribilis if there ever was one.

COMMENT: Key and his cohorts face a rethink on the Government's fiscal priorities to allow for another significant rebuild.

COMMENT: It's Fraud Awareness Week. Here's why we all need to look out for each other and those money traps out there.

COMMENT: Investors take a glass-half-full approach and focus on hopes spending will get US economy moving again.

COMMENT: If Trump carries out his trade and defence threats, NZ would face the risk of slower global economic growth, higher interest rates and fewer capital flows.