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The ASX200 ground out a small 0.1% gain on Thursday leaving us marginally higher for both the week and month, it’s becoming boring on the index level but my “Gut Feeling” is movement is looming on the horizon. The Banks continue to weigh on the index but a strong 2.4% bounce by the IT Sector managed to keep us in positive territory – its been a long while since both of the value & growth names rose or fell together as sector rotation continues to dominate proceedings. December arrives in less than week and the bullish statistics keep on rolling e.g. over the last 40-years…

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Afternoon report

The Match Out: ASX drifts lower ahead of key Nvidia earnings result

The local market spent the morning stabilising after yesterday’s selloff, with Nvidia’s earnings result tomorrow morning remaining in the focus. Strength across energy, gold and defensive names helped the market keep its head above water for most of the morning, until softness prevailed into the close as investors took risk off the table with a volatile session likely in store for tomorrow.

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Morning report

What Matters Today: Looking for new ideas amongst the financials after recent volatility

The ASX 200 managed to eke out a small gain on Monday after starting the session on the back foot. Buying crept in throughout the day, reversing an initial 0.5% drop to close marginally higher, helped by firm US futures. Tech and energy stocks led the gains through a relatively quiet session, which only saw 3% of the main board move by over 5%.

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Afternoon report

The Match Out: ASX snaps 4 day losing streak by a whisker

The local market looked set for another down day and its fifth straight in the red, before a strong midday rally turned sentiment around. After a ~200-point rout over the past week, the buy-the-dip mentality finally re-emerged as US futures rose, driving the index back into positive territory – albeit, only just.

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Morning report

Macro Monday: Cracks appear in the “AI Trade” ahead of Nvidia results

Wall Street may have notched its worst day in over a month on Thursday, but one category of assets has fared far worse this week — meme stocks. One painful example is NuScale Power (SMR US), a popular stock in the US used to play the power generation buildout theme for AI data centres, which plummeted ~50% last week, extending its losses from mid-October.

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Weekend report

Weekend Q&A: Corporate Australia and the Fed steal the ASX’s “Mojo”

The ASX 200 ended the week down 1.5% trading at its lowest level since July, with the vast majority of the damage unfolding on Friday. The week ended with the local market suffering its worst day in 10 weeks amid a global pullback in risk assets. Hawkish comments by Fed officials on Thursday night dialled back expectations that they would cut rates in December, sending rate-sensitive stocks lower. The tech, financial, and real estate sectors were the worst performers, while the materials and energy names again led the line, gaining 3.8% and 1.9%, respectively

Afternoon report

The Match Out: ASX suffers worst week since March

The Australian market copped another heavy bout of selling today, with sentiment rattled by growing fears that interest rates in both the US and Australia aren’t coming down any time soon. The move follows Wall Street’s largest one-day fall in a month and caps the ASX’s worst week since March.

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