14 Mar 2012

New Zealand market up on Wednesday

7:19 pm on 14 March 2012

The benchmark NZX 50 has risen 29 points to close at 3499 on turnover of $178 million dollars on Wednesday.

In currency markets at 6.03pm, the dollar was trading at 82.09 US cents, 77.85 Australian cents, 52.30 pence, 68.26 yen and 0.6276 euro.

The Trade Weighted Index was at 73.32.

Fletcher Building was up 9 cents to $6.85. Telecom was up 1.5 cents to $2.47. Chorus was up 2 cents to $3.62. Contact Energy was up 3 cents to $5.00.

Sky City Entertainment was up 1 cent to $3.88. Sky Television was up 5 cents to $5.29.

Port of Tauranga was down 3 cents at $10.73.

The Warehouse was unchanged at $2.73.

Pumpkin Patch was up 5 cents to $0.91.