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A pretty soft session for the local market which followed the US lead. The tech heavy Nasdaq was weak overnight and the showed up in tech stocks on the ASX today which felt the worst of the selling. Real Estate and telcos were also notably weak. The focus was on US inflation pressures following their PPI data overnight, though the news wasn’t showing up in bond markets, equity markets did feel the pinch. The Producer Price Index…
Yesterday saw the Australian market recover strongly from a 0.5% dip early in the session but the stocks again lacked the strength to forge ahead into positive territory, the market ultimately closed down less than 1-point – as we’ve said before “The song remains the same” with investors happy to buy dips but sellers emerging into strength as the ASX200 continues to rotate around the 7400 area which it first reached back in mid-June, now around 6-months ago.
A solid session by the end of the day after a weak open saw the market down -37pts at its worst before a spirited fightback led to an unchanged session, you’d almost call it a bullish day given that consumer staples fell by nearly 4% on a weak update from Woolworths and a negative broker report on Coles.
The ASX200 rallied 0.35% on Monday which was a reasonable effort considering the Banking Sector closed in the red although heavyweight CBA did manage to finish marginally higher. At both midday and 4pm I felt the market was off and running for its annual Christmas Rally but alas aggressive selling in the futures market after 4pm led to a very poor match which saw local stocks lose almost half of the day’s gains in one fell swoop, looking at US stocks overnight it looks like somebody,,,
A choppy but positive start to the week for the Australian market with strength in the material, energy & property sectors partially offset by weakness amongst financials & healthcare. The best of the session was seen before lunchtime with the market up +60pts at its peak, before a late sell-off created a fairly disappointing / lacklustre finish to trade.
Omicron undoubtedly hasn’t gone away but equities have moved their focus elsewhere, at least for now. The headlines for the variant have remained mixed however international and state governments are forging ahead with their reopening plans with renewed vigour e.g. Queensland’s borders finally opened to NSW and Victoria this morning while Dan Andrews is actually opening the Garden State to visitors from South Africa without the need for quarantine!
The ASX200 rallied over 1.5% last week with all 11 sectors closing in positive territory although it was surprisingly the defensives which led the line i.e. Consumer Staples, Utilities and Real Estate names. It was unusual to see the likes of tech, materials and financials dragging the chain when the market enjoyed such solid gains. At this stage there’s nothing more sinister than some sector reversion / catch up at play towards year end but we are watching out for investors de-risking into 2022.
A softer day to end the week, though selling was pretty subdued from an index point of view. A weak lead from US markets weighed on stocks, particularly the tech sector which was in the firing line both here and overseas. Healthcare & energy were also notably weak while the utilities sector was carried by strength in two of the heavyweights of the sector. There was little in the way of news flow to drive markets, weakness largely blamed…
The ASX200 took a breather on Thursday after an explosive few days, the market ultimately closed down 0.3% after some late selling in the SPI futures dragged the index into the red but overall it felt like a nothing day with only 54% of stocks closing down. We saw some mixed news towards the Omicron variant but it really felt like investors simply just took a rest after advancing all week:
A fairly quiet session for the local market today with stocks consolidating yesterdays strong advance. There was very little in terms of company news flow nor was there any tier 1 economic data aside from Chinese inflation which came in a tad below expectations. Utilities led the line up +0.40% while Energy stocks finished 1.09% lower. Overall, a fairly lacklustre session and a fairly lacklustre afternoon note as a consequence!
