Thursday, 27 December 2018
Markets
Kiwis have once again put their mobile devices through their paces this festive season, hitting record highs for data usage across Vodafone’s networks.
more»Dec. 27 (BusinessDesk) - Boxing Day shopping proved to be another bonanza for retailers with spending through non-fuel merchants jumping 11.2 percent on the day compared with last year.
more»Dec. 27 (BusinessDesk) - A year after its backdoor listing, TIL Logistics has renewed the third of three contracts billed as risks to its financial performance.
more»Dec. 27 (BusinessDesk) - Vital Healthcare Property Trust’s trustee and supervisor says one of its roles is to ensure the manager is acting in the best interests of unitholders.
more»Dec. 27 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar was largely left on the sidelines as US stock markets recovered on Boxing Day when Amazon and other retailers mounted a comeback on strong consumer spending.
more» Spending through Paymark at non-fuel merchants on Boxing Day was up strongly this year, rising by 11.2% on Boxing Day 2017. The $139.5 million spent was made up of $64.1 million on traditional debit cards and the remainder on credit cards or scheme ...
more»New Zealanders showed their generosity this Christmas, spending more than $100,000 on charitable giving instead of traditional gifts at NZ giving website The Good Registry.
more»Infratil to help finance sale of NZ Bus to private equity for up to $240M
more»Dec. 24 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares gained in shortened Christmas Eve trading, shaking off the negative lead set by Wall Street's decline on Friday night, with defensive stocks such as property investment firms and power companies among the ...
more»Dec. 24 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar trod water in quiet Christmas Eve trading but may continue to fall into the New Year as uncertainty over geopolitics keeps investors uneasy.
more»Dec. 24 (BusinessDesk) - PGG Wrightson will buy back a small parcel of shares from an investor who voted against the sale of the seeds business to Denmark's DLF Seeds.
more»Dec. 24 (BusinessDesk) - About 38 percent of New Zealanders have been asked an illegal question during a job interview this year and, what’s possibly more surprising, 89 percent of those surveyed by the Seek online job advertisements platform answered ...
more»MYOB's keeps its KKR bird in hand as it searches for a higher offer
more»Dec. 24 (BusinessDesk) - First NZ Capital is adding derivatives trading to its bow with the purchase of specialist derivatives broking house OMF to achieve a strategic consolidation of New Zealand's private wealth management and investor service providers.
more» Retailers are likely to be pleased but unexcited with this year’s Christmas spending as the running total for the first 23 days of December is up only 1.0% (excluding fuel) on last year. However, the impact of Black Friday is now clear with a peak ...
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| COMP | 6,554 | 361 |  | 5.84% |
| DJI | 22,878 | 1,086 | | 4.98% |
| SP500 | 2,468 | 117 | | 4.96% |
| DAX | 13,466 | 236 | | 1.78% |
| FTSE | 7,488 | 5 |  | 0.07% |
| NI225 | 22,420 | 408 | | 1.86% |
| TWI | 71.99 | 0.10 | | 0.13% |