NZX down on final day — but 2024 a good year overall

NZX down on final day — but 2024 a good year overall
Spark was one of the year's worst-performing stocks. (Image: File)
Graham Skellern
The New Zealand sharemarket ended the year with a sudden fall of more than 1% but it still put in its best performance since 2020.After rising nearly 4% in the previous five trading days, the S&P/NZX 50 Index fell sharply on the opening following a weak day on Wall Street and then declined further in the last 15 minutes.The index closed at 13,110.74, down 159.27 points or 1.2%, on light trading of 19.66 million shares worth $73.2 million. There were 91 decliners and 37 gainers on the main board.The NZX index finished the year with a gain of...

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