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Carbon holds in the high $6 range
7 Sep 2015
NZUs closed the week with no trade. OMFinancial reports:
Market remains steady
1 Sep 2015
Then thousand NZUs changed hands at $6.80 yesterday. OMFiancial reports:
The spread narrows
28 Aug 2015
Around 60,000 NZUs changed hands between $6.70 and $6.80 yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs open $6.60/$7
26 Aug 2015
Carbon had a quiet day yesterday with no improvement on the opening market of $6.60/$7.00. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs trade at $6.90
21 Aug 2015
Carbon continues to bubble along in the high $6s. OMFinancial repors:
Small volumes trading at $6.80
19 Aug 2015
The market is holding $6.80/6.95,with 5000 units available at each price. OMFinancial reports:
Patient market holds steady
18 Aug 2015
The market was left $6.80/6.90 yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs sit at $6.85
13 Aug 2015
Moribund and range-bound are the two descriptions that loom large for the local carbon market. OMFinancial reports:
Still quiet in local market
12 Aug 2015
NZUs have continued to be very quiet this week, with very few units changing hands. OMFinancial reports:
All quiet on local market
11 Aug 2015
NZUs did not trade here yesterday, and still remain range-bound with a fix/last of $6.85. OMFInancial reports:
Fewer units pass through register
10 Aug 2015
Fewer than four million units passed through the New Zealand register last month – less than half than in July last year.
Local market remains steady
10 Aug 2015
Carbon continues to hold the current range, with some smalls trading at the $6.80 level. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs trade up to $6.95
4 Aug 2015
Two thousand NZUs traded at $6.90 and $6.95 yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
Carbon picks up at end of week
3 Aug 2015
Seventy thousand NZUs traded at $6.85 on Friday - decent volume for what was a mostly quiet week. OMFinancial reports:
NZU left $6.80-6.90
30 Jul 2015
The market was quiet yesterday with small volumes trading. OMFinancial reports:
Light activity on local market
29 Jul 2015
Twenty thousand NZUs changed hands at $6.85 yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
Market unchanged
24 Jul 2015
Another quiet day in carbon with only small volume trading. OMFinancial reports:
May 2016 $8 call options trade at $0.50
22 Jul 2015
Spot NZUs were left 6.80/7.00 on no volume yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
Market gets a bit busier
21 Jul 2015
More NZUs changed hands on Monday than in the entirety of last week. OMFinancial reports:
Carbon consolidates
20 Jul 2015
It was a quiet end to the week on Friday, with no NZUs trading. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs take day off
15 Jul 2015
NZUs did not trade yesterday. It’s a Mexican stand-off between buyers and sellers at this point. OMFinancial reports:
Market firm, and tender passes
14 Jul 2015
NZUs traded $7.05 on Monday, on volume of 15,000. OMFinancial reports:
English off on no-climate-talking tour
13 Jul 2015
Finance Minister Bill English is heading to China – but he has no plans to discuss that country’s moves into carbon trading.
Linking carbon unit values poses major problem
13 Jul 2015
Figuring out how carbon units from different jurisdictions relate to each other is one of the biggest challenges facing the emerging global carbon market.
Climate gets claws into cats
13 Jul 2015
Climate change will make cats more of an environmental problem in New Zealand, new research suggests.
Carbon on the march
13 Jul 2015
NZUs closed last week at $7.05, with 70k transacting on Friday, from $6.80 to $7.05. OMFinancial reports:
Carbon holds $6.80
10 Jul 2015
Another quiet day for carbon where spot NZUs held the $6.80 level. OMFinancial reports:
A quieter day after a busy start to week
9 Jul 2015
It was a quiet day for carbon yesterday - spot NZUs settled at $6.90 on CommTrade. OMFinancial reports:
Million-credit tender attracts strong interest
8 Jul 2015
A tender for up to a million credits that came to the market yesterday is drawing strong interest, OMFinancial says.
Active trading in NZUs
8 Jul 2015
More than 100,000 NZUs changed hands yesterday, with interest continuing to grow in this market. OMFinancial reports:
Large parcel of NZUs for tender
7 Jul 2015
Two hundred thousand – and potentially a million – spot NZUs have come to the market this morning.
Activity picking up on local market
7 Jul 2015
We saw a flurry of trading yesterday, with about 60,000 NZUs trading over the day. OMFinancial reports:
Carbon ticks along
6 Jul 2015
Carbon had a quiet day on Friday to see out the week. OMFinancial reports:
Spot carbon closes at $6.80
3 Jul 2015
Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $6.80 on 25,000 tonnes. OMFinancial reports:
Carbon price grinds higher - where to from now?
30 Jun 2025
By Liz Kivi | The carbon price has continued to grind slowly higher since this month’s failed auction, with prices at their highest since March, although still languishing well below this year’s auction floor price.
