Wellington, July 9 NZPA - Labour Party energy spokesman Charles Chauvel says he's investigating whether the failure of an oil company in which Genesis Energy had a stake will financially hurt taxpayers.

Wellington, July 2 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket drifted lower today and was deemed to be lacking direction by brokers.

Wellington, July 2 NZPA - Fletcher Building's share price recovered half of yesterday's loss in early trade, as the New Zealand sharemarket managed a respectable start to the day.

Wellington, July 1 NZPA - Graham Cockroft has returned to New Zealand from an international business career to take up the newly created position of chief operating officer at Contact Energy.

Wellington, June 30 NZPA - The Government is open to the idea of setting different reduction targets for different types of greenhouse gases, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said today.

Wellington, June 30 NZPA - Shares in top stock Telecom fell 9c in early trading to 265 following announcements on mobile regulation by the Commerce Commission.

Wellington, June 26 NZPA - News of a worse-than-expected contraction of the New Zealand economy in the March quarter led to an under-performance of nation's stockmarket today.

Wellington, June 25 NZPA - Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee says he will wait six months to see whether the Electricity Commission advises regulating for fully-enabled "smart" electricity meters or to just leave the choice up to electricity companies.

Wellington, June 23 NZPA - A contract that was signed in 1979 to recover gas from Taranaki's offshore Maui field came to a close this week. Maui was New Zealand's first offshore gas field, and one of the world's largest when it was discovered.

Wellington, June 23 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket took a sizeable fall today but resisted the larger declines seen offshore as investors remained on the sidelines.