The NZ Super Fund has hit an all-time high and was valued at $76.6 billion for the year to June 30, an increase of $11.2 billion on the prior financial year.
More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - who produce Boeing's 737 MAX and other jets in Seattle, have taken strike action after overwhelmingly voting down a new contract.
And still in the US, a National Labor Relations Board, Administrative Law Judge, has ordered Starbucks to reopen within a reasonable period of time at two locations that had hat closed after employees formed a union.