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Friday 5th September 2008 |
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The sharemarket fell slightly today with the NZSE50 down -0.35% to end the day at 3,336.
Top stock Telecom rose 1.0% after deferring its dividend reinvestment plan while it considers whether to accelerate investments on faster broadband services.
Second-ranked Contact Energy was slightly up by 0.1%, while the third best
stock Fletcher Building gave back 0.7%.
In the retail sector Hallenstein Glasson was up 0.3%, but Pumpkin Patch lost
1.9%, Michel Hill declined 6.7%, and The Warehouse Group lost 2.7%.
Today's gainers included Plus SMS Holdings up 52.63%, BLIS Technologies up 17.65%, ProvencoCadmus up 5.56%.
Other major losers included Finzsoft Solutions down 15%, APN News & Media 8.4%, Freightways 2.9%, ING Property Trust 2.6%, and Pike River Coal 3.7%.
Banks were also down today, ANZ dropping 3.4% and Westpac lost 2.8%.
Briscoe Group, owner of the homeware Living & Giving, Urban Loft and Rebel sports outlets, remained unchanged today after it reported a 71% slump in first-half profit as retailers cut prices to woo consumers, eroding their margins.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed 2.06%, or 102.4 points, lower at 4877.1.
On Wednesday, the Dow and the broader S&P 500 indexes tumbled 3.0% each and the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged 3.2%.
| NZ Top 50 | 3,336.178 | -11.963 (-0.36%) |
| ASX 200 | 4,877.100 | -102.400 (-2.06%) |
| Dow | 11,188.23 | -344.65 (-2.99%) |
| Nasdaq | 2,259.04 | -74.69 (-3.20%) |
| FTSE 100 | 5,362.10 | -137.60 (-2.50%) |
| AIA | 2.02 | -0.01 |  |
| AIR | 1.14 | -0.02 | |
| AMP | 8.70 | 0.00 |  |
| ANZ | 19.90 | -0.70 | |
| APN | 3.94 | -0.36 | |
| APT | 1.05 | +0.01 |  |
| CAV | 3.00 | 0.00 | |
| CEN | 8.36 | +0.01 | |
| EBO | 4.95 | +0.07 | |
| FBU | 7.55 | -0.05 | |
| FPA | 1.80 | -0.02 | |
| FPH | 3.24 | 0.00 | |
| FRE | 3.40 | -0.10 | |
| GFF | 1.77 | -0.03 | |
| GMT | 1.12 | +0.01 | |
| GPG | 1.37 | -0.01 | |
| HLG | 3.00 | +0.01 | |
| IFT | 2.23 | -0.03 | |
| IMP | 1.10 | -0.01 | |
| ING | 0.75 | -0.02 | |
| KIP | 1.13 | +0.01 | |
| LNN | 10.58 | -0.12 | |
| MFT | 7.00 | -0.05 | |
| MHI | 0.84 | -0.06 | |
| MVN | 1.65 | 0.00 | |
| NPX | 6.26 | -0.14 | |
| NZO | 1.51 | -0.01 | |
| NZR | 7.14 | -0.24 | |
| NZS | 1.60 | +0.09 | |
| NZX | 6.92 | -0.05 | |
| PFI | 1.13 | 0.00 | |
| PGW | 2.72 | 0.00 | |
| POT | 7.00 | +0.05 | |
| PPL | 1.55 | -0.03 | |
| PRC | 1.85 | -0.07 | |
| RAK | 2.88 | -0.02 | |
| RYM | 1.70 | +0.02 | |
| SAN | 6.20 | +0.10 | |
| SKC | 3.77 | +0.06 | |
| SKL | 1.00 | -0.01 | |
| SKT | 4.81 | -0.02 | |
| STU | 3.75 | -0.05 | |
| TEL | 3.15 | +0.03 | |
| THL | 1.36 | -0.04 | |
| TLS | 5.22 | -0.15 | |
| TPW | 7.90 | -0.10 | |
| TWR | 2.10 | -0.02 | |
| VCT | 2.25 | -0.01 | |
| WBC | 28.54 | -0.81 | |
| WHS | 3.22 | -0.09 | |
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