NZX capitalisation up, equity trading volume down

Thursday 3rd February 2011

The daily average value of shares traded on NZX was $69 million in January, down 10.2% on last year.

There were 35,711 trades during January, down 1.2% on last year. The average number of daily trades was 1880.

A total of $86 million of new capital was raised during the month, comprising $10 million of equity and $76 million of debt.

The equity market's capitalisation rose 4.9% to $56.7 billion, while the capitalisation of the debt market rose 7% to $16.1 billion.

There were 171 equity securities on NZX markets, down 6.6% on last year, and 116 listed debt securities, down 1.7% on last year.

The NZX 50 rose 0.9% in January and was up 5.5% from the same time last year.

The NZX's derivatives market had 40 trades in the month.

NZPA

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