Pumpkin Patch shares came off the boil yesterday, ending a three-day rally that had been prompted by the struggling retailer's flagging of the potential for a takeover.

Could 2015 go down in history as the year of the boring sharemarket listings?

New Zealand's latest equity crowdfunding campaign is being pitched to sharebrokers, suggesting the big end of town might have a role to play in the new capital-raising route for small, fast-growing....

Kathmandu's profit warning this week was a shocker, there's no doubt about it.

Martin Aircraft Company has extended its IPO for two weeks as the firm negotiates with a potential investor that could become a cornerstone shareholder.

The ticker codes are allocated and the listing dates set - New Zealand's initial public offering pipeline is pumping again.

Software developer Orion Health's initial public offer prospectus, which was registered on Tuesday, contains a lot of impressive numbers.

Shareholders in NZX-listed power companies became the first beneficiaries of National's decisive victory in the general election after the market opened on Monday.

Invivo Wines co-founder Tim Lightbourne says an NXT listing is a capital raising option the company is considering.

"A remarkable week." That was how NZX chief executive Tim Bennett, addressing the Gentrack listing event in Auckland on Wednesday, described what has been an eventful few days on the market.

Orion Health is gearing up to carry out a sharemarket listing during the latter part of this year, according to sources.

Investor appetite for speculative software investments doesn't appear to have been shaken by this year's global sell-off of growth-focused technology stocks

Technology firm PowerbyProxi has been entertaining fund managers at its College Hill headquarters, suggesting work towards a potential sharemarket listing is gathering momentum.

It was a tale of two very different technology companies when Gentrack and Serko announced listing plans on Monday.

The NZX will catch up with its counterparts around the world when it launches equity derivatives next month. The exchange operator will offer index futures contracts, which will trade off the NZX20, from June 16.

The Shareholders Association has warned investors to be wary of the market speculation surrounding TRS Investments - the company which this week announced it would merge with Kim Dotcom's Mega in a $210 million deal.

Fund manager Salt has used a slump in Pumpkin Patch's share price to snap up more shares in the stock.

Pacific Edge has had a rollercoaster of a ride this week after receiving a please explain notice from the stock exchange about its recent share price decline and then an index notice to....

The strife between Russia and the Ukraine has resulted in a tough week for European stock markets but the NZ bourse has taken no notice of the situation and hit new highs, writes Tamsyn Parker.

The Government has given itself a tight timetable for the Genesis Energy float...

While the sharemarket has been overloaded with a raft of company financial reports this week, the fixed interest market has had a flurry of its own announcements.

Trade Me's stoush with real estate agents over its fee increases for property listings has driven a down-grade from one analyst.

The outcome of this year's election is still a major unknown but one analyst has already started factoring it into his recommendations for the energy sector.