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6:58 AM.American markets are closed for a public holiday, but the main British and European markets closed up between 2 and 3%. Audio

6:56 AM.The listed energy company, Contact, says it has resigned itself to a flat outlook, as customers shop around for the best buy. Audio

6:54 AM.The Belgium-based resins manufacturer, Allnex, which is making a takeover bid for Nuplex is probably able to extract more value than the shareholders of the New Zealand resin maker, according to an… Read more Audio

6:52 AM.A survey has found retailers believe a physical store presence trumps the online experience when it comes to driving sales, brand and customer loyalty ... in other words bricks over clicks. Audio

6:50 AM.The economy is expected to bottom out in the first half of this year at around 2 percent annual growth as the impact of weak dairy prices, slower construction growth, and the ever present slowdown in… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Lobby groups are at odds over the secrecy that enveloped the Trans Pacific Partnership talks, and whether the Government did enough to ease public mistrust about the contentious agreement. Audio

6:41 AM.The Police are vowing not to give up trying to find the body of 27-year old Aaron Roigard who was murdered by his father in June 2014. Audio

6:28 AM.The Labour Party says the Ministry of Social Development should not be reducing mental health funding in Canterbury. Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

6:23 AM.Our business editor, Gyles Beckford, is in now with what's happening in the financial world. Audio

6:18 AM.New figures from Universities New Zealand show there are big financial returns for students of some courses, but others leave graduates worse off than people who never studied at all. Audio

6:13 AM.Hundreds of letters and photos have been released detailing Pope John Paul the second's thirty-year friendship with a married woman. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Counselling and trauma services in Christchurch are slashed. A school and a children's hospital are hit in airstrikes in northern Syria and a man dies and a second is rescued in a boating tragedy off… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. Audio

8:51 AM.The Australian government says it will no longer conduct annual Anzac commemoration services at Lone Pine, the scene of a rare victory for Australian troops during the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign. Audio

8:46 AM.We talk to Duane Major, who started the campaign to buy the Abel Tasman beach just over three weeks ago. Audio

8:42 AM.The Prime Minister John Key says the government may make a modest contribution to the campaign to buy an Abel Tasman beach if there is a shortfall. Audio

8:38 AM.The Vice Chancellor Of Victoria University Grant Guildford, is calling on politicians to abandon their myopic focus on the cost of mitigating climate change. Audio

8:31 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:28 AM.More than half of the over 900 asylum seekers - who fled from places such as Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka - have now had their refugee status confirmed by PNG Immigration. Audio

8:24 AM.How strictly America should apply immigration controls and how to deal with the estimated 11-million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. are questions all of the Presidential candidates are being… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.A new report says plans to extend Wellington Airport's runway by at least 300 metres do not make economic sense. Audio

8:17 AM.Two days after the Auditor General announced she would investigate the Government's controversial Saudi sheep deal, the government agency in charge was told all further spending on the project was… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.The GeoNet website says there have been three moderate aftershocks, measuring magnitude 3.6, 3.5 and 3.9, and one strong aftershock measuring 4.2 at 6.30 last night. Audio