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Energy Mad doubles on string of good US news

Shares in energy efficient light bulb maker Energy Mad have doubled today, touching a two-year high of 68 cents, after a string of positive announcements about the company’s US market growth. Over the past two years the Christchurch based company has suffered a series of setbacks since its IPO in late 2011, consistently missing prospectus forecasts. Last year it wrote …

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Labour drops tax cuts in favour of $1.5B of new spending

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OceanaGold gains on news of Q4 uplift

Shares of Melbourne based mining group OceanaGold has risen 9.7 percent in early NZX trading after announcing its gold production exceeded expectations in 2013. The company produced 325,732 ounces of gold across its New Zealand and Philippines operations, slightly ahead the top of the range it had forecast of 285,000 to 325,000 ounces. It says its 2013 final quarter was …

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Dairy prices rise 1.4 percent at GDT auction as cheese, butter surge

Dairy product prices rose at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, led by surging prices for butter and cheese, two products which have posed problems for Fonterra Cooperative Group as their prices lagged whole milk powder. The GDT Price Index increased 1.4 percent from the last sale on Jan 8. The average winning price was US$5,025 per tonne from US$4,953 a tonne …

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While you were sleeping Meagre earnings outlook

After a long weekend, Wall Street returned with a sombre mood as the earnings outlook from companies including Johnson & Johnson and Verizon failed to justify current valuations. Shares of Johnson & Johnson dropped, last 2 percent weaker, after its earnings outlook fell short of expectations. The outlook reflects “some level of conservatism-in line with historical guidance-given still seemingly weak …

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MARKET CLOSE NZ shares mixed as Hallenstein recovers, Tower goes ex-div

New Zealand stock market was mixed, as the Wellington Anniversary holiday thinned out trading, as Hallenstein Glasson rebounded and Tower slipped after shedding rights to its February dividend. The NZX 50 Index fell 3.451 points, or about 0.07percent, to 4890.496. Within the index, 16 fell, 25 stocks rose and nine were unchanged. Turnover was a lighter-than-usual $66.8 million with fewer …

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International survey ranks Auckland houses severely unaffordable for 10th year in a row

Auckland house prices remained “severely unaffordable” for the 10th year in a row in the American survey, Demographia, which compares housing costs in nine mainly English-speaking countries. Produced by Wendell Cox, an Illinois-based opponent of urban planning and proponent of private cars over public transport and Christchurch-based urban planner Hugh Pavletich, the Demographia report contends that restrictive urban planning is …

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