Late rally leaves market on positive note

Late rally leaves market on positive note
Electricity stocks helped the market into the green today.
The New Zealand sharemarket staged an admirable comeback to end the day in positive territory after being down almost 1 per cent at one stage.The S&P/NZX 50 recovered from its intraday low of 11,635.75 with a late rally sending the benchmark index up 28.98 points to 11,759.11, for a gain of 0.25 per cent following Wednesday’s 40-point decline.There were 58 gainers and 71 decliners over the whole market with a light turnover of 13.2 million shares worth $54.83 million changing hands.“We did see a nice improvement, mostly led by I...

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