Thursday 28th August 2008 |
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The sharemarket rose slightly today with the NZSE50 up 0.19% to end the day at 3,324.
Top stock Telecom advanced 0.6% and second-ranked Contact Energy lost 0.5%. Number three, Fletcher Building, added 0.4%.
In the retail sector, Hallenstein Glasson jumped 1.8% and Pumpkin Patch increased
5.8%. Not so good for Michel Hill who dropped 1.1% and The Warehouse Group dipped
0.9%.
Among other major gainers, Xero was up 10%, Delegat's Group surged 5.38%, AMP
jumped 3.8%, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare increased 1.7%, Auckland International
Airport rose 1.5%, Pike River Coal jumped 2.2% and SkyCity Entertainment was
up 3.5%.
Losers included Dominion Finance down 16.67%, L & M Petroleum down 5.88%,
Heritage Gold down 3.85%, Rakon dipped 2.1%, NZX lost 2.3%, Guinness Peat Group
gave back 2.8% and Goodman Fielder and Fisher & Paykel Appliances lost 1.7%
each.
Things were more positive among the banks, Westpac Banking Group moved up 3.6%
and ANZ increased .26%.
Lyttelton Port remained unchanged today after it announced an increase to its full-year profit by 7.3% on record volumes of cargo.
ProvencoCadmus, dipped 5.26%, after posting a full-year loss and saying it is considering assets sales to shore up its capital.
Nuplex Industries, was up 1.59% on posting an 84% gain in full-year earnings after it closed unprofitable plants and lifted sales.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 55.3 points, or 1.1%, to 5066.5, led
by gains among miners and some financial stocks.
NZ Top 50 | 3,324.796 | +6.273 (+0.19%) |
ASX 200 | 5,066.500 | +55.30 (+1.10%) |
Dow | 11,502.51 | +89.64 (+0.79%) |
Nasdaq | 2,382.46 | +20.49 (+0.87%) |
FTSE 100 | 5,528.10 | +57.40 (+1.05%) |
AIA | 2.06 | +0.03 | |
AIR | 1.18 | -0.01 | |
AMP | 8.20 | +0.30 | |
ANZ | 19.65 | +0.05 | |
APN | 3.86 | 0.00 | |
APT | 1.05 | -0.01 | |
CAV | 2.75 | 0.00 | |
CEN | 8.35 | -0.04 | |
EBO | 4.95 | +0.04 | |
FBU | 7.30 | +0.03 | |
FPA | 1.76 | -0.03 | |
FPH | 3.05 | +0.05 | |
FRE | 3.35 | 0.00 | |
GFF | 1.76 | -0.03 | |
GMT | 1.13 | -0.03 | |
GPG | 1.39 | -0.04 | |
HLG | 2.90 | +0.05 | |
IFT | 2.23 | +0.04 | |
IMP | 1.13 | 0.00 | |
ING | 0.77 | -0.02 | |
KIP | 1.12 | -0.02 | |
LNN | 10.84 | -0.21 | |
MFT | 7.22 | -0.03 | |
MHI | 0.88 | -0.01 | |
MVN | 1.66 | -0.03 | |
NPX | 6.40 | +0.10 | |
NZO | 1.62 | 0.00 | |
NZR | 7.20 | +0.07 | |
NZS | 1.59 | -0.01 | |
NZX | 7.23 | -0.17 | |
PFI | 1.14 | -0.03 | |
PGW | 2.75 | 0.00 | |
POT | 7.15 | 0.00 | |
PPL | 1.64 | +0.09 | |
PRC | 1.89 | +0.04 | |
RAK | 2.87 | -0.06 | |
RYM | 1.76 | -0.01 | |
SAN | 6.00 | -0.05 | |
SKC | 3.56 | +0.12 | |
SKL | 0.89 | 0.00 | |
SKT | 4.72 | -0.01 | |
STU | 3.38 | +0.05 | |
TEL | 3.26 | +0.02 | |
THL | 1.49 | +0.04 | |
TLS | 5.40 | 0.00 | |
TPW | 7.95 | +0.09 | |
TWR | 2.25 | 0.00 | |
VCT | 2.29 | -0.07 | |
WBC | 28.50 | +1.00 | |
WHS | 3.32 | -0.03 |
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