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Trading in the shares of listed trade software company TradeWindow has resumed after the NZX market regulator NZ RegCo on Thursday morning placed a halt on its trading.
That was after it announced a 12-month contract with French dairy giant Lactalis, which TradeWindow said was of “significant value” to the company. However, it did not disclose further financial details, citing commercial sensitivity.
NZ RegCo said it exercised its discretion to apply the halt while discussing the announcement with TradeWindow. The halt was put in place pre-market open Thursday.
TradeWindow later clarified the "significant value" was strategic, rather than monetary.
The National Party says it is establishing a dedicated pipeline of affordable housing for over-65s by ringfencing at least 20% of places for seniors from the Housing Flexible Fund.
The contestable fund was set up under last year’s Budget and is aimed at providing stable housing for people in high need.
National leader Christopher Luxon said the party would also expand its granny flats policy so more could be built faster, and make it easier to build tiny homes by extending the granny flat rules to cover them too.
“National wants seniors to be able to live with dignity as they age, in warm, dry, affordable homes,” Luxon said.
He said that, in the past three years, National had lifted superannuation payments, protected the winter energy payment, and every SuperGold card holder living on New Zealand superannuation with rates over $2000 could now get the full rates rebate.
Dual-listed medical device company Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has reported a cybersecurity breach of two employee email accounts and a subset of company files.
It said there had been no impact to the company’s products, manufacturing operations or supply chain and production continues uninterrupted. There is no evidence the unlawful access has compromised the company’s system that maintains patient data.
Some of the accessed files contained personally identifiable information and the company is notifying those affected and the relevant authorities.
The company said it had not identified any evidence of ransomware or malware and believes it has contained the incident without any material impact on its financials or operations.
The company will report its half-year results on November 26.
