Midday Report for Wednesday 16 October 2013

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

12:26 PM.England, Spain, Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have all booked their places for next year's Fifa World Cup finals. Audio

12:17 PM.The Financial Markets Authority cancels a prospectus for the first time. Annual inflation is back within the Reserve Bank's target band and the sharemarket edges down. Audio

12:00 PM.The New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the prestigious Booker prize in London and evacuated residents in Whanganui are still unable to return home after flooding there. Audio