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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's quarterly business survey, which showed a decline in sentiment after Christchurch's devastating earthquake but was not as bad as it could have been.

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... agricultural produce with radioactive contamination. New Zealand and Australia too will be hit by natural disasters. Christchurch will crumble from a strong earth tremor while portions of Australia will be submerged downunder by flooding. Being certain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... points. On Tuesday it notched up the additional gains even though Fletcher Building - a key beneficiary of the proposed Christchurch reconstruction - lost 7c of the 20c gain it retained on Monday after spiking to a three-year high of 928. Fletcher finished ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... manager disclosed that its costs are likely to be driven up by as much as $NZ20 million ($A14.74 million) by the Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks. Tower warned that the extra expenditure cannot be recovered in the current financial year to ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... wreaking havoc on the world's third biggest economy. The earthquake in Japan dwarfed the 6.3 magnitude tremor that hit Christchurch in New Zealand less than a month before (25 February 2011). The force of the quake was so great that apart from triggering ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... the Reserve Bank to cut the official cash rate cut by 50 basis points to 2.5 percent in response to last month's Christchurch earthquake was largely anticipated, and the New Zealand dollar dipped then recovered somewhat. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... stocks traded. The central bank is expected to cut the OCR to 2.5 percent from 3 percent tomorrow because of the Christchurch earthquake but economists are divided on the need for such a move. Profit-taking took its toll on Fletcher Building, which eased ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... Libya near an oil terminal, a rise in the price of gold to a record high, and the continuing implications of the Christchurch earthquakes. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed up 15.315 points, or 0.453 per cent, at 3397.308. Turnover was worth $NZ123.8 ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Christchurch continues to dig through the rubble left by the tremor that hit the region three days ago in the hope of rescuing all those still trapped underneath. While on the other part of the globe, Libyan butcher Qaddafi continues to turn his country ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... fall in first half net profit after cutting full year guidance due to the expected cost of Monday's earthquake in Christchurch. By 1017 AEDT, shares in IAG were down one cent at $3.66. Fellow insurer Suncorp Group Ltd, which on Wednesday reported a 39 ...