Tenon, the wood mouldings company controlled by former Fletcher Challenge unit Rubicon, boosted its funding lines, signing up to a bigger banking facility as it seeks to cash in on the US housing recovery. The Auckland-based company signed a five-year, US$70 milion facility, adding PNC Bank National Association to its banking syndicate with existing lenders Bank of New Zealand and …

Better-than-expected Chinese data and takeover deals helped bolster Wall Street, which also welcomed a Russian proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control in an effort to avert US military intervention. Shares of Molex soared, last up 31.6 percent, after Koch Industries agreed to buy the maker of electronic components for US$7.2 billion. In other deals, Ares Management and …

New Zealand stocks rose slightly, as did Australian stocks, where markets were digesting the implications of a clear, but less emphatic than anticipated, win for the Liberal Party-led coalition of the new Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. The NZX 50 Index rose 16.841 points, or 0.366 percent, to 4,614.019. Within the index, 24 stocks rose, 17 fell and nine were unchanged. …