Sharemarket misses regional rally; NZX offline - again

The S&P/NZX 50 Index decreased 19.79 points, or 0.2 percent, to 11,770.75. Within the index, 20 stocks fell, 26 rose and four were unchanged. Turnover was $148.1 million.

Trading may have been slowed by the NZX’s website coming offline for much of the afternoon in similar circumstances to the cyber-attacks in August.

Those unable to access the website were redirected to an alternate site which hosted the last 200 market announcements, allowing trading to continue.

Global investor sentiment solidified after the wobbles of last week and equity markets globally made some recovery on positive vaccine news and economic data.