5 Apr 2022

Business commentator Pattrick Smellie

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 5 April 2022

Pattrick discusses Air New Zealand's capital raise, saying no serious investor wants to touch airline stock, so it is very deeply discounted, but that in turn is causing the small-time Sharesies-type investors - who've piled into Air NZ basically because they've heard of it - to get a sharp lesson in sharemarket realities. Also are people resuming their pre Omicron shopping patterns?. 

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Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

 

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