2 Mar 2012

New Zealand market up

5:25 am on 2 March 2012

The NZX 50 rose 8 points to close at 3331 on turnover of $106 million on Thursday.

In currency markets, at 5.30pm the dollar was trading at 83.53 US cents, 77.72 Australian cents, 52.46 pence, 67.70 yen and 0.6263 euro.

The Trade Weighted Index was at 73.57.

Fletcher Building was up 10 cents at $6.64, Telecom was up 1 cent $2.15 and Chorus was up 4 cents to $3.30.

Sky City Entertainment was up 4 cents to $3.80 and Sky Television was up 2 cents to $5.02.

Tower was up 2 cents to $1.57, Contact Energy was down 1 cent $4.82 and Port of Tauranga was up 18 cents to $11.12.

Air New Zealand was up 0.5 cent to $0.87. Goodman Fielder was up 1 cent to 86 cents and The Warehouse was down 1 cent to $2.52.