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Monday 18th August 2008 |
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The sharemarket fell slightly today with the NZSE50 down -0.51% to end the day at 3,334.
Top stock Telecom gained .31%, Fletcher Building gained 1.57% and Contact Energy was up .23%.
In the retail space The Warehouse was down nearly 5%, Pumpkin Patch was unchanged, Hallenstein Glasson was down .7%. Michael Hill dipped 1.12%.
Top gainers included Pacific Brands up 11.36%, Pan Pacific Petroleum up 3.70%, Freightways up 3.45%, Kingfish up nearly 2% and Lion Nathan up 1.85%.
Today's biggest losers were Plus SMS Holdings down 23.33%, Geneva Finance down 10% and OceanaGold down 8.33%.
Fisher & Paykel Appliances tumbled over 11% after the company said earnings will be hurt by costs to relocate plants overseas.
Freightways, was up 3.45% after announcing a 5% gain in annual profit and increased its final dividend after expanding in Australia and lifting sales from express packages.
The Australian benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dipped 1.4 points, or 0.3%, to 4980.0. Miner BHP Billiton Ltd and steelmaker BlueScope Steel released their annual results.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 43.97 points, or 0.38%, to close
at 11,659.90, while the tech-rich Nasdaq composite fell 1.15 points, or 0.05%
to 2,452.52.
The broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 5.27 points to finish
at 1,298.20.
| NZ Top 50 | 3,334.145 | -16.988 (-0.51%) |
| ASX 200 | 4,980.300 | -1.400 (-0.03%) |
| Dow | 11,659.90 | +43.97 (+0.38%) |
| Nasdaq | 2,452.52 | -1.15 (-0.05%) |
| FTSE 100 | 5,454.80 | -42.60 (-0.77%) |
| AIA | 1.99 | -0.04 |  |
| AIR | 1.25 | 0.00 |  |
| AMP | 8.35 | 0.00 | |
| ANZ | 20.69 | -0.31 | |
| APN | 3.86 | -0.09 | |
| APT | 1.06 | -0.02 | |
| CAV | 2.61 | +0.01 |  |
| CEN | 8.59 | +0.02 | |
| EBO | 4.80 | -0.05 | |
| FBU | 7.10 | +0.11 | |
| FPA | 1.85 | -0.24 | |
| FPH | 2.88 | -0.08 | |
| FRE | 3.30 | +0.11 | |
| GFF | 1.85 | +0.03 | |
| GMT | 1.18 | +0.01 | |
| GPG | 1.52 | -0.01 | |
| HLG | 2.83 | -0.02 | |
| IFT | 2.16 | 0.00 | |
| IMP | 1.07 | -0.01 | |
| ING | 0.80 | +0.01 | |
| KIP | 1.12 | 0.00 | |
| LNN | 11.00 | +0.20 | |
| MFT | 7.18 | 0.00 | |
| MHI | 0.88 | -0.01 | |
| MVN | 1.68 | -0.01 | |
| NPX | 6.39 | +0.09 | |
| NZO | 1.46 | -0.03 | |
| NZR | 6.93 | +0.03 | |
| NZS | 1.70 | -0.08 | |
| NZX | 7.57 | 0.00 | |
| PFI | 1.17 | +0.03 | |
| PGW | 2.80 | 0.00 | |
| POT | 6.91 | +0.12 | |
| PPL | 1.60 | 0.00 | |
| PRC | 1.79 | -0.04 | |
| RAK | 3.03 | 0.00 | |
| RYM | 1.72 | +0.02 | |
| SAN | 6.18 | 0.00 | |
| SKC | 3.55 | -0.08 | |
| SKL | 0.97 | -0.01 | |
| SKT | 5.00 | -0.10 | |
| STU | 3.25 | 0.00 | |
| TEL | 3.25 | +0.01 | |
| THL | 1.42 | -0.08 | |
| TLS | 5.45 | +0.04 | |
| TPW | 7.70 | -0.25 | |
| TWR | 2.27 | +0.01 | |
| VCT | 2.28 | -0.02 | |
| WBC | 28.00 | -0.35 | |
| WHS | 3.43 | -0.18 | |
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