NZ sharemarket continues slide, down 1.5% for the week – Market close

Graham SkellernBusinessDesk·28 Aug, 2026 06:21 AM4 mins to readHallenstein Glasson surged 90c to a record $11.65 after reporting that group sales for the year ending August 1 rose 19.6% to $563m. Photo / NZMEFalls by two leading stocks, Infratil and Meridian, on the New Zealand sharemarket marred another solid day of results, with Air New Zealand an outlier, and Hallenstein Glasson hitting an all-time high. The S&P/NZX 50 Index continued to slide in the afternoon after reaching a morning high of 14,009.46 and