The New Zealand and Australian sharemarkets were both up when the markets closed on Thursday.
The benchmark NZX50 index rose 14 points to 3302 on turnover of $90 million.
Across the Tasman, the Australian 200 index was up 36 points, at 4204.
At 5.20pm, the New Zealand dollar was at 82.75 US, 79.27 Australian cents, 50.58 pence, 63.75 yen, 0.5751 euro. The Trade Weighted Index was at 71.16.
Fletcher Building was unchanged at $7.85, Telecom was up 2 cents at $2.72 and Contact Energy was up 12 cents at $5.31.
Sky City Entertainment was down 1 cent at $3.48, Auckland International Airport was down 0.5 cents at $2.27 and Air New Zealand was down 2 cents to $1.09.
The Warehouse was down 4 cents at $3.38.
NZ Oil & Gas was up 5 cents to 67 cents.
Skellerup was up 2 cents to $1.24.
Fisher & Paykel Appliances was down 3.5 cents to 48.5 cents.
Tourism Holdings was down 3 cents to 60 cents.
Nuplex was up 5 cents to $2.64, Mainfrieght was up 14 cents to $9.74, Xero was up 10 cents to $2.60 and Cavotec MSL was up 5 cents to $2.80.
