NZX cash trading keeps climbing in May as new bonds revive debt market

NZX cash trading keeps climbing in May as new bonds revive debt market
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth June 7 (BusinessDesk) - Trading on New Zealand's NZX climbed for another month in May as the benchmark stock index reached new highs and a flood of new bonds drove activity in the debt market.  The volume of total traders rose 39 percent to 173,379 in May from the same month a year earlier, more than the 142,769 in April, with the value up 46 percent to $4.3 billion from 2015 and $4.1 billion in April, NZX's monthly shareholder metrics show. The daily average value traded was up 40 percent at $197 million from May 2015, jus...