Mary Holm answers your investment questions.

1. Mary Holm: Start of relationship hard to ascertain (3 comments)

Cyprus has confirmed the cost of its EU-IMF bailout has surged to €23 billion from €17.5 billion.

1. IMF contributes $1.5b to rescue package for Cyprus

Brian Gaynor writes: "We continued to borrow, partly from offshore, to push up existing house prices when this has proven…

1. NZ house sales hit six-year high

Ron Johnson's short-lived tenure as JC Penney's CEO will go down as one of the biggest flameouts in corporate America.

1. Changes loom at Noel Leeming

Some of the largest KiwiSaver providers are already committed to buying shares in the soon to be floated…

1. Stock Takes: Crunch time for Mighty River float (2 comments)

Auckland bar owner Evan King has just been through a divorce, of sorts, and now he's loving his new-found liberation. Until…

1. Small business: Your business online - Andrew Simmonds

What a difference a CEO makes. When Ron Johnson was brought in to run JC Penney in late 2011, the department store chain…

1. Kiwis crave online convenience

What’s a former All Black, TV star and multimillionaire entrepreneur doing hosting a mainstream breakfast radio show? Marc…

1. Ellis back in hospital with infection

The future of a residential building company with unfinished houses in Hamilton and Auckland is unclear today, with creditors…

1. Most Mainzeal sites now back with clients

A man who escaped conviction following the Dominion Finance trial is likely have his name suppressed…

1. Director of failed finance company dies

Recent months have shown that we have a Revenue Minister who is more interested in tinkering around the edges, writes David…

1. Facebook muscles in on Android users

MediaWorks-made boy band Titanium has scored in the Top 40, writes John Drinnan. Tweenie girls swoon for the late teen and…

1. John Drinnan: Campbell basks in ratings (65 comments)

Maori-controlled, with a Vietnamese connection, one of the country's newest dairy companies does things a little bit differently…

1. Co op or company - dairy firms cover the range

The Financial Markets Authority has given its tick of approval to the Mighty River share offer document, meaning next week's…

1. video Key, English on Mighty River sale (3:22)

New Zealand food prices recorded their biggest drop since October 2011 last month, led by declines in…

1. Cheese war sees prices tumble to two-year lows

Finance Minister Bill English used a pre-Budget speech to say the Government will act to curb rising house prices which…

1. video Bill English: Govt on track for 2015 surplus (3:00)

The New Zealand dollar has continued its rally, topping 86 US cents and charting a new record on a trade-weighted basis.

1. David Chaplin: Are other banks keeping the Kiwi high? (45 comments)

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have launched a political group.

1. video Facebook users get first look at 'Home' (0:47)

Forcing the hefty to pay more is not only an indignity, it's manifestly unfair.

1. Fat passengers hit in the pocket

More rental properties are available now than a year ago but demand from would-be tenants has declined…

1. State housing revamp unveiled

Greg Cross, co-founder PowerbyProxi, a wireless power company building solutions for some of the biggest…

1. Small business: Quakes push tech firm to success

Fonterra's not-so-little brother, Westland Milk, says it's sticking with its co-operative model.

1. Chinese dairy giant enters NZ market with $210m factory

More than 20 Kiwi start-up investors are hoping to forge links with their counterparts from around the world at a major…

1. High-tech start-ups struggle to find the right resources (4 comments)

Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been found guilty of four charges of theft by a person in…

1. Dominion Finance trial restarts