{"id":534754,"date":"2026-07-20T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:06:23","slug":"new-zealand-shares-flat-fletcher-building-secure-nz60-million-government-deal-for-golden-bay-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534754\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Shares Flat; Fletcher Building Secure NZ$60 Million Government Deal for Golden Bay Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/19EAA9EDD94932B30B20459900F0277203A79D8D5C46D52A0BD3D77E09D70167\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_au_792%2F2ea5be66362745230bad900c4b03fba3\" 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 were flat on Monday despite a surge in oil prices in the wake of the escalating conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/NZX 50 Index was little changed to close at 13,696.03.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures rose around 2% to over $90 per barrel. The US and Iran continued to trade strikes for over a week after an earlier ceasefire seemed to break down.<\/p>\n<p>In domestic news, New Zealand recorded a goods trade surplus of NZ$22.7 million in June, compared with a surplus of NZ$576.8 million in May, Stats NZ data showed. Goods exports rose 25% to NZ$8.09 billion, while imports rose 28% to NZ$8.07 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, Fletcher Building (ASX:FBU, NZE:FBU) said New Zealand&#8217;s government granted its Golden Bay Cement unit up to NZ$60 million as part of an agreement to support the subsidiary&#8217;s continued operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Comvita (NZE:CVT) appointed Emma Blott as chief commercial officer, starting July 6.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock New Zealand shares were flat on Monday despite a surge in oil prices in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195297,111,43,139,69,12447],"class_list":["post-534754","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-trade-surplus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534754","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=534754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}