Halloween is likely to be a lot less spooky than it appeared to be mere days ago with October set to close as the best performing month for Wall Street in decades.

Shares soared in Europe overnight and are well up on Wall St after European leaders agreed on a Greek debt deal.

The New Zealand dollar fell nearly one US cent overnight.

New Zealand is set to complete its free trade triumvirate with Greater China when it adds Chinese Taipei to this country's earlier deals with Beijing and Hong Kong.

Costamare told investors it purchased secondhand container ships, including the Rena, at a good time and is making a yield of 32 per cent on them.