The New Zealand sharemarket was modestly ahead at the start of trading for the week, after six consecutive days of gains had seen it pull away from an 11-month low early in the month.
Around 10.15am the benchmark NZX-50 index was ahead 1.95 points at 3007.2, on top of a 21.3-point gain on Friday.
The few stocks rising early included retailer The Warehouse up 2c to $3.45, NZ Farming Systems Uruguay up 2c to 42c, and Freightways up 2c to $2.69.
Fletcher Building lost 4c early to $7.71, while among other leading stocks Telecom was up 1c to $1.93 and Contact Energy was untraded having closed at $5.83 on Friday.
In the United States, Wall Street closed out its best week in a year, snapping back from a long stretch of selling, as investors looked ahead to what many expect will be a solid earnings season.
Stocks ended near the day's highs, but trading was thin with the lowest-volume day of the year.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.6 percent at 10,198.03, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 0.7 percent at 1077.95, and the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 1 percent at 2196.45.
For the week, the S&P 500 was up 5.4 percent, the Dow rose 5.3 percent and the Nasdaq advanced 5 percent.
