RESEND: MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares fall led Spark, SkyCity, Xero pace decline

Tue, 19 May 2015

(RESEND: Includes turnover amount in second para) By Suze Metherell May 19 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares fell, led by Spark New Zealand and paced by Sky City Entertainment Group and Xero, ahead of the March 31 earnings season. Infratil rose. The NZX 50 Index fell 15.548 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5757.162. Within the index, 23 stocks fell, 20 rose and seven were unchanged. Turnover was $114 million. Spark, which was formerly Telecom Corp and is the midst of trying to drive revenue into its data and cloud based service, fell...

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