{"id":502270,"date":"2026-06-30T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:33:09","slug":"new-zealand-shares-rise-westpac-nz-renews-11-year-loyalty-partnership-with-air-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502270\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Shares Rise; Westpac NZ Renews 11-Year Loyalty Partnership With Air New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/FA356BCE11DDFA037D8E6C64EE190E62A485E27F9158F8E7AD979FC98E84AA95\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_au_792%2Faa60b555ef15cae2b56eac352e00670d\" 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 Tuesday as markets digested a rally in Wall Street shares on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/NZX 50 Index rose 0.56% or 76.10 points to close at 13,621.66.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Nasdaq Composite ended 2.1% higher, the S&amp;P 500 gained 1.2%, while the Dow Jones added 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>In domestic news, New Zealand business confidence rose 27 points to 37 in June, according to a report by ANZ.<\/p>\n<p>Also, New Zealand&#8217;s lending from registered banks and non-bank lending institutions increased in May, driven by growth in housing, business, agricultural, and consumer loans, according to data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, Westpac Banking&#8217;s (ASX:WBC, NZE:WBC) Westpac NZ renewed its 11-year loyalty partnership with Air New Zealand (ASX:AIZ, NZE:AIR), allowing the bank&#8217;s customers to continue to earn points through the airline&#8217;s Koru program.<\/p>\n<p>Vital Healthcare Property Trust (NZE:VHP) said it will undertake stage 2 of the Macarthur Health Precinct in New South Wales, an incremental development of NZ$99.3 million with a total project cost of NZ$112.2 million, to deliver a short stay surgical hospital and medical outpatient building.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock New Zealand shares closed higher on Tuesday as markets digested a rally in Wall Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9293,2711,111,43,139,69,9046,250733,250732],"class_list":["post-502270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air-new-zealand","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reserve-bank-of-new-zealand","tag-westpac-banking","tag-westpac-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502270","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=502270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}