29 Feb 2012

NZ market up on Wednesday

6:44 pm on 29 February 2012

The benchmark NZX 50 rose 13 points to close at 3323 on turnover of $106 million dollars on Wednesday.

In currency markets at 5.26pm the dollar was trading at 84.20 US cents, 77.93 Australian cents, 52.85 pence, 67.77 yen and 0.6248 euro.

The Trade Weighted Index stands at 73.78.

Fletcher Building was up 18 cents at $6.52, Telecom was down 0.5 cents to $2.14 and Chorus was up 1 cent at $3.27.

Sky City Entertainment was up 1 cent to $3.78 and Sky Television was down 12 cents at $5.00.

Auckland Airport was down 3.5 cents to $2.41.

Tower was up 2 cents to $1.55 and Contact Energy was up 2 cents $4.82.

Port of Tauranga was up 4 cents to $10.94.

Air New Zealand was unchanged at $0.86.

Goodman Fielder was unchanged at 85 cents.

Mainfreight was up 1 cent at $9.51. The Warehouse was down 1 cent to $2.53.