Midday Report for Wednesday 4 September 2013

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

12:26 PM.The Australian veteran Lleyton Hewitt is out of the US tennis Open after a five-set fourth-round loss to Russian 21st seed Mikhail Youzhny. Audio

12:17 PM.Opus buys a Canadian engineering firm for up to 110 million dollars. Auckland house prices stabilise and the sharemarket is flat. Audio

12:00 PM.MP Peter Dunne is questioned at Parliament's Privileges Committee and the US Secretary of State says the country has a duty to respond to Syria's chemical attack. Audio