12 Mar 2012

NZX rises again

7:16 pm on 12 March 2012

The benchmark NZX 50 rose 18 points to close at 3452 on turnover of $99 million on Monday.

Last Friday, it rose 20 points.

Fletcher Building was up 6 cents to $6.69. Telecom up 3 cents to $2.41, Chorus up 16 cents to $3.63 and Contact Energy unchanged at $4.96.

Sky City Entertainment was up 2 cents to $3.82. Sky Television up 2 cents to $5.24, Port of Tauranga down 7 cents at $10.61 and The Warehouse down 9 cents to $2.71.

In currency markets at 5.06pm, the dollar was trading at 81.83 US cents, 77.66 Australian, 52.21 pence, 67.34 yen and 0.6248 euro. The TWI stood at 72.98.