{"id":545851,"date":"2026-07-27T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545851\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:45:16","slug":"new-zealand-shares-reach-all-time-high-spark-new-zealand-starts-review-of-digital-services-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545851\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Shares Reach All-Time High; Spark New Zealand Starts Review of Digital Services Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/5F48C9BFBC5895B715F57FC1014A2DFDDBDE1C94DAF789D49FA6FDBBA16BC5F0\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_au_792%2F40f9f1c294384821c6cc0a9df8277ec9\" 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-j98iil 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 rose to their all-time high as most Asian markets saw gains amid a pause in the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/NZX 50 Index rose 0.57% or 78.40 points to close at an all-time high of 13,850.69.<\/p>\n<p>Iran said it would halt its attacks if the United States did the same, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing a senior Iranian official, as Washington paused its bombing campaign after advisers warned Trump that viable targets were dwindling and raised concerns about straining the US arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, total new residential mortgage lending in New Zealand fell to NZ$8.45 billion in June from NZ$8.63 billion in May, according to data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, Spark New Zealand (ASX:SPK, NZE:SPK) started a strategic review of its Digital Services division.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian Energy (ASX:MEZ, NZE:MEL) has received approval to develop the 110 megawatt Morrinsville Solar Farm in Waikato, with around 230,000 solar panels expected to generate up to 200 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity annually, enough to power more than 25,000 homes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock New Zealand shares rose to their all-time high as most Asian markets saw gains amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[171062,111,43,139,69,9046],"class_list":["post-545851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reserve-bank-of-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545851","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=545851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}