{"id":494422,"date":"2026-06-25T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:22:09","slug":"new-zealand-shares-rise-santana-volunteers-pause-in-new-zealand-gold-project-fast-track-approvals-process-to-provide-additional-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494422\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Shares Rise; Santana Volunteers Pause in New Zealand Gold Project Fast-Track Approvals Process to Provide Additional Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/2D555799E36B9266027321335CCC8A7C33EBB32E777F118F000D011A991FC294\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_au_792%2Fbf34294a5351009a3e5c67e2ce17438d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"MT Newswires - Shutterstock\" height=\"403\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/><\/a> MT Newswires -Shutterstock           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">New Zealand shares closed higher on Thursday as investors reacted to oil prices reaching pre-war levels amid tankers transiting through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/NZX 50 Index advanced 0.69%, or 92.39 points, to close at 13,493.05.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures fell to around $72 per barrel. Gold fell below $4,000 for the first time since November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In domestic news, total new residential mortgage lending in New Zealand rose to NZ$8.63 billion in May from NZ$7.99 billion in April, according to data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, Santana Minerals (ASX:SMI, NZE:SMI) decided to volunteer a pause period to provide additional data and reports, as well as provide time to workshop conditions with the regulators regarding the fast-track approvals process for the Bendigo-Ophir gold project in New Zealand&#8217;s South Island.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher Building (NZE:FBU, ASX:FBU) said that Moody&#8217;s Investors Service confirmed that the ratings firm withdrew its Fletcher Building credit rating effective Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>a2 Milk (NZE:ATM, ASX:A2M) declared a fully franked special dividend of NZ$0.41355 per share, payable on July 24 to shareholders on record as of July 9.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock New Zealand shares closed higher on Thursday as investors reacted to oil prices reaching pre-war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195297,111,43,139,69,9046,247559],"class_list":["post-494422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-brent-crude-oil","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reserve-bank-of-new-zealand","tag-santana-minerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}