Heavy trading · New Zealand stocks
Smart US 500 (NZD Hedged) ETF (USH) volume jumps to 4.0 times its average
The price rose 0.3% on the day, to NZD 4.22.
- Close
- NZD 4.22
- On the day
- +0.3%
- Volume
- 4.0× average
- vs 52-week high
- −1.0%
Smart US 500 (NZD Hedged) ETF closing prices
The last 90 closes up to 8 October 2026. The live chart is on the USH page.
What happened
Smart US 500 (NZD Hedged) ETF (USH) closed at NZD 4.22 on 8 October 2026, up 0.3% from NZD 4.21 the session before.
Over 5 sessions the price is up 0.9%, and over 20 sessions it is up 2.3%.
The close is 1.0% below the highest close of the past year (NZD 4.26 on 14 Aug 2026) and 19.3% above the lowest (NZD 3.54 on 30 Mar 2026).
Trading was heavy: volume was 4.0 times its average of the sessions before.
Across the 58 NZSE stocks we track, 15 closed higher and 34 closed lower that day, with a median change of −0.18%. USH's change was +0.3%.
This page reports what the price and volume data show. It does not say why the price moved.
The numbers
| Previous close | NZD 4.21 |
|---|---|
| Close | NZD 4.22 |
| Change on the day | +0.31% |
| Change over 5 sessions | +0.91% |
| Change over 20 sessions | +2.25% |
| Volume | 592,589 |
| Average volume, up to 20 sessions before | 148,222 |
| Volume against that average | 4.0 times |
| Highest close in the past year | NZD 4.26 (14 Aug 2026) |
| Lowest close in the past year | NZD 3.54 (30 Mar 2026) |
The full chart and history are on Smart US 500 (NZD Hedged) ETF (USH). More from this market: NZSE news today.