Market close: Travel stocks surge on transtasman bubble announcement
6 Apr, 2021 05:38 AM
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Stocks benefiting from the introduction of a transtasman travel bubble rose sharply. Photo / Getty Images
NZ Herald
By: Graham Skellern
Further selling in Contact Energy and Meridian on the New Zealand sharemarket outweighed sharp gains in stocks benefiting from the introduction of a transtasman travel bubble.
There was heavy trading in the leading energy renewable
stocks as the offshore exchange trade funds rebalance their weightings in the S&P Global Clean Energy Index.
This resulted in the S&P/NZX 50 Index falling 87.82 points or 0.7 per cent to 12,400.48 on volume of 97.6 million share transactions worth $207.54 million. There were 74 gainers and 63 decliners over the whole market.