Financial results are coming in thick and fast.

a2 Milk is reporting a 21 percent rise in profit - alongside announcing it bought the Yashili plant in Pokeno.

It's also sold its majority stake in the Mataura Valley plant in Gore - to Open Country Dairy.

Contact Energy's profit is up 13-percent, after a surge in geothermal generation, and Freightways' profit is up 12.9 percent.

Harbour Asset Management's Shane Solly unpacks the mood of the markets.

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