With Wall Street stocks rebounding overnight, the stage was set for a strong trading session on NZX and this turned out to be the outcome. After adjusting downwards the overstretched valuations of loss-making capital hungry high tech stocks, the NYSE board went...

  Equity investors took some capital off the table today – but not so much in reaction to the wafer-thin lead held by the governing coalition in Saturday’s general election as in response to ructions on Wall Street. The election has had a very mild impact on...

There was a massive turnaround in American equity markets overnight – eclipsing the previous day’s enthusiastic surge after the mid-term Congressional elections result. The market has reacted negatively to rising oil prices and concerns that a Democrat dominated...

IT may have been a continued wave that swept through the US Congress yesterday, punishing the Trump administration for favouring tech titans rather than the rust-belt states he promised 8 years ago he’d make great again. President Trump may be lame-duck president with...

Trading was fairly mixed on the NZ sharemarket today. On NZX today the NZX50 gained 63.19 at 13,783.45. There were 29 gainers and 45 decliners. The negative economic news of the day was data confirming a rise in the unemployment level to 5.7%. In Australia the ASX All...