Reeling from cyber attacks, NZX 50 shuffles to record

The S&P/NZX 50 Index rose 40.09 points, or 0.3 percent, to 12,093.52. Within the index, 27 stocks rose, 18 fell and five were unchanged. Turnover was higher than usual at $249 million.

The benchmark index closed at a record after gaining 1.8 percent across the week. It was largely flat on the day as investors absorbed mixed earnings results from the past two days.

The exchange has been hit with daily distributed denial of service attacks since Tuesday which have shut down trading for almost half of last four sessions.

Yesterday, the market was open for just one hour before the exchange was pulled offline for the rest of the day. Trading was expected to resume this morning, but a new attack delayed the market open until 1pm.