Not a lot to hang ones hat on today, the index trading around in a tight range before ultimately ending flat ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates tonight. They’re going to cut, the only question is by how much with traders erring on the side of a bigger 0.5% reduction to kick off an easing cycle that markets think will last until the end of 2025
The ASX jumped out of the blocks this morning and made a new all-time high at 8148.8, though it was the magnitude of a beez……foot, just 1/10th of 1 pt above the previous all-time, intra-day high set on the 1st August at 8148.7. Stocks ultimately drifted lower through the session with some interesting corporate news flow hitting the tape, but little that turned the dial at the index level
A lacklustre start to a week dominated by central bank calls on interest rates, headlined by the US Fed on Thursday night as weakness in China continues; data over the weekend showing China’s new home prices fell at their fastest pace in more than nine years in August, putting pressure back on the mining stocks today.
A solid end to a good week for Australian shares, the ASX200 up 1.5% inclusive of dividends, with the Material sector driving the gains – the first time for a while – with the financials the only sector to lose ground.
A solid session today with broad-based buying and importantly, both index heavyweights (Banks & Miners) made strong headway. The bid is coming back into the resources and if banks can just hold it together, the index should finally breakout to be highs, now less than 100pts away.
Yesterday the market was weak on open and rallied, today the opposite played out, strong on open before tapering off throughout the day implying indecision remains. Banks hit their highs in the morning, Resources were mixed, though Energy, led by Uranium stocks fired up after a tough period.
The excuse for Friday’s sell-off was about a poor labour market print, however, non-farms barely missed the mark, consistent with cooling and normalisation as opposed to an economy on the cusp of recession, which is how the market seemed to interpret it. In any case, we continue to expect heightened volatility through September as the market lurches from data point to data point.
Just one those weeks! Glad to see the back of it where our portfolio positioning in our Growth Portfolio was put under pressure. Too heavy in resources at a time of global growth worries, too slow to dial it back and now we need to take a deep breath because selling/reducing exposure after the horse has bolted is a rarely a good move. As we wrote during the week, if we didn’t have the positions we do, we’d be stepping up to the plate, however, prudent portfolio management means we can only go so far.
A reasonable session today, after an aggressive sell-off yesterday swept through the ASX, and while IT topped the boards, Real-Estate stocks caught our eye with brokers starting to turn more positive on the sector, arguably a bit late, but we agree with the view
The ASX jumped out of the blocks this morning and made a new all-time high at 8148.8, though it was the magnitude of a beez……foot, just 1/10th of 1 pt above the previous all-time, intra-day high set on the 1st August at 8148.7. Stocks ultimately drifted lower through the session with some interesting corporate news flow hitting the tape, but little that turned the dial at the index level
A lacklustre start to a week dominated by central bank calls on interest rates, headlined by the US Fed on Thursday night as weakness in China continues; data over the weekend showing China’s new home prices fell at their fastest pace in more than nine years in August, putting pressure back on the mining stocks today.
A solid end to a good week for Australian shares, the ASX200 up 1.5% inclusive of dividends, with the Material sector driving the gains – the first time for a while – with the financials the only sector to lose ground.
A solid session today with broad-based buying and importantly, both index heavyweights (Banks & Miners) made strong headway. The bid is coming back into the resources and if banks can just hold it together, the index should finally breakout to be highs, now less than 100pts away.
Yesterday the market was weak on open and rallied, today the opposite played out, strong on open before tapering off throughout the day implying indecision remains. Banks hit their highs in the morning, Resources were mixed, though Energy, led by Uranium stocks fired up after a tough period.
The excuse for Friday’s sell-off was about a poor labour market print, however, non-farms barely missed the mark, consistent with cooling and normalisation as opposed to an economy on the cusp of recession, which is how the market seemed to interpret it. In any case, we continue to expect heightened volatility through September as the market lurches from data point to data point.
Just one those weeks! Glad to see the back of it where our portfolio positioning in our Growth Portfolio was put under pressure. Too heavy in resources at a time of global growth worries, too slow to dial it back and now we need to take a deep breath because selling/reducing exposure after the horse has bolted is a rarely a good move. As we wrote during the week, if we didn’t have the positions we do, we’d be stepping up to the plate, however, prudent portfolio management means we can only go so far.
A reasonable session today, after an aggressive sell-off yesterday swept through the ASX, and while IT topped the boards, Real-Estate stocks caught our eye with brokers starting to turn more positive on the sector, arguably a bit late, but we agree with the view
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