NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.5%

NZ sharemarket starts week down 0.5%
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Graham Skellern
Cancer diagnostic company Pacific Edge slumped 55% after failing to get the backing for continued United States Medicare payments for its Cxbladder tests, and the New Zealand sharemarket joined global moves with a fall.After a sell-down on Wall Street at the weekend, the S&P/NZX 50 Index traded weakly till a late turnaround and closed at 12,827.33, down 68.65 points or 0.53%. Volumes were light, with 30.08 million shares worth $71.1 million changing hands – nearly half of them being Pacific Edge on trade of 13.12 million shares w...

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