Mr. Grant Williamson

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  Grant Williamson, a partner with Hamilton, Hindin, Greene, said Monday's performance indicated the market had been oversold.
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  "I think it surprised just about every broker in the country to see the share price get sold off following their half yearly result and I think that was maybe just one or two large sellers in the market," Mr Williamson said.
  
  Children's clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch lost 11c to 183, its lowest level since August 2004, on the back of a disappointing January half result.
  
  The company boosted its revenue but its net after tax profit fell 23 percent to $10.2 million, largely due to expansion-related costs.
  
  "The stock was a high flyer, very high investor expectations that it was going to do very well and expand successfully overseas," Mr Williamson said.
  
  "But with the dollar, it's really hit a brick wall and a slowdown in retail environment, and the US and the UK not really helping."
  
  Mr Williamson said some of the stocks which had reported solid results were doing well, the most noticeable of which was Cavalier.

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  Brokers expect the market to remain quiet, with a tendency toward the downside, ahead of the central bank's interest rate review on April 26, said Grant Williamson, adviser at Hamilton Hindin Greene.
  
  "The prospect of another interest rate rise is going to hold the currency up so the market's getting no relief there," he said.
  
  "Overseas markets are a bit mixed, so that gives no clear signals, and the local scene is lacking any news," he added.

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  "`We had a positive open but profit-taking has seen those gains pretty much given up," Grant Williamson, a partner with Hamilton, Hindin, Greene said.
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  "Certainly the world equity markets have settled down somewhat over the past week or so and that's allowed our market to just hold its own ground at the moment," Mr Williamson said.
  
  Contact Energy continued to make a strong recovery due to rising power prices in a dry summer.It rose 10c to 786 on top of a 14c gain on Friday.
  
  Mr Williamson said Contact was coming back as a good defensive stock.
  
  However, Fletcher Building was still struggling ahead of its half year result this month, ending down 21c to 995 today.
  
  Mr Williamson said investors appeared to be focused on a flattening residential housing market in New Zealand.
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  Mr Williamson said a recent result had disappointed investors and there was "not a lot of interest" in the British-registered stock.

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  "I think we are lacking any solid news and investors are just sitting on the sidelines waiting for financial results to start coming through next month," said Grant Williamson, a partner with Hamilton, Hindin, Greene.
  
  He also said investors seemed to be concerned about another interest rate rise, after stronger than expected inflation figures out Monday showed prices rose 1.0 percent in the June quarter.Market leader Telecom rose one cent to 4.67 NZ dollars and Fletcher Building was down seven cents at 12.37.Among power companies, Contact Energy rose eight cents to 9.09 dollars and Trustpower was up 10 cents at 8.39, as low winter temperatures increased demand for heating.Exporter Fisher & Paykel Appliances rose five cents to 3.55 dollars.Williamson said it has new product developments in the pipeline, while the stock has also been a beneficiary of continued rumors that the company is a takeover target.
  
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  Grant Williamson, a partner at Hamilton, Hindin Greene, said trading was mixed.
  
  "There's just not much coming off the newswires at all so investors are once again concentrating on the domestic economy with the high interest rates and the high currency," he said.

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  Grant Williamson, a partner at Hamilton, Hindin Greene, said volumes were light and performances were mixed.
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  "A lot of brokers have come out with reports on that, and regarding what the new accounting standards will mean for the port companies," Mr Williamson noted.
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  Telecom is expected to announce its new ceo at the end of the month and Mr Williamson said it would have to be a very good appointment to revive the share price.

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  "Telecom's still stuck within a trading range of around 4.70 to 4.90 dollars," Grant Williamson, a partner at Hamilton, Hindin, Greene said.

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  "Tomorrow morning we'll have a lot more detail and possibly expect some volatility in that share price tomorrow, " Grant Williamson, a partner with Hamilton, Hindin, Greene, said.
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  "I think the outlook with interest rates still going up, the strong dollar, a number of investors are prepared to take some profits and sit on the sidelines and see what happens in the next few months," Mr Williamson said.
  
  Star performer was Dominion Finance , whose shares rose 20c or nearly 10 per cent to a year high of 230 after reporting that its net year profit had doubled as a result of acquisition.
  
  "It's been a quiet achiever on the New Zealand market in the last number of months," Mr Williamson noted.
  
  Other positive stories included Hellaby Holdings, up 6c to 416 after yesterday's news that it was thinking about selling its retail shoe operations.
  
  Currency-sensitive stocks Sanford and F&P Healthcare were up 15c to 465 and 1c to 383 respectively.
  
  The latter had been creeping up over recent days but with the currency still strong, the reason was "a bit of a mystery", Mr Williamson said.
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  The unsurprised market "had worked it into the equation several weeks ago",m Mr Williamson said.

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  "I think the outlook with interest rates still going up, and the strong (New Zealand) dollar, (means) a number of investors are now prepared to take some profits and sit on the sidelines and see what happens over the next few months," said Grant Williamson, a partner with Hamilton, Hindin and Greene.
  
  Market leader Telecom fell three cents to 4.87 nzd ahead of the company's third quarter results Thursday, as the market awaits news on how much money will be returned to investors from the sale of its Yellow Pages business."We'll have a lot more detail (at the results briefing) and possibly we can then expect some volatility in the share price," Williamson said.

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  "We believe we are seeing some Australian end-of-financial year selling," Grant Williamson, a partner at Hamilton, Hindin, Greene said.
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  Mr Williamson said Sky City had enjoyed a "nice lift" yesterday, and profit-selling, possibly foreign, had been at work today.
  
  Bargain hunters helped Freightways , which rose 19c to 319 in the wake of a pummelling over fuel prices.Mainfreight rose 5c to 669 after being pushed down from $7.20 two weeks ago.
  
  NZOG was also on the upside, touching a record high of 176 but ending at 174, up 13c or 8 percent.Mr Williamson said the stock had been under pressure from an exercising of options and now they had stopped trading, the share price had lifted.

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