The ASX was higher today (+16pts), though it finished up less than SPI Futures (+58pts) had implied on Saturday morning, the atrocious attacks by Hamas within Israel over the weekend that left hundreds dead has created another level of complexity, leading to higher Oil & Gold prices across Asia today, while we all hope and pray for a quick resolution, it appears unlikely.
Local shares tracked higher into the weekend with the big end of town doing the heavy lifting. Banks were well supported, as were iron ore stocks as China’s Golden week wraps up and reports that the China Mineral Resources Group is getting on the front foot to secure supply for 2024. The Energy rout continued though with oil tumbling this week, a sharp ~8% decline put plenty of pressure on the sector, but’s it’s good from an inflation perspective.
Some respite across the ASX today with the market bouncing from the bottom of its trading range despite a fairly brutal night across material and energy stocks, both sectors lagged today but the slack was more than taken up by interest rate sensitive names, property stocks enjoyed the pullback in US bond yields which flowed through to our own bond market today while Tech rebounded nicely from an aggressive 3-week, 13% pullback that has improved the risk/reward materially in the number of the large cap names.
Another sell-off today with the ASX hitting the lowest close in 11-months, although the selling is fairly anaemic in nature and on very light holidays volumes, but still, the direction of least resistance has clearly been down since the ASX 200 peaked at the end of July at 7472, now down ~600pts/8% from that milestone, back at the very bottom of its 12-month trading range.
Quite a bizarre day for stocks with the market lower overall, although there were some decent intraday-rallies met with some decent intraday selling; ultimately a very choppy session on low school holiday volumes that saw the ASX 200 track back and test the bottom of its recent trading range – chalking up a 6-month low in the process.
Low volumes seen across the bourse to round out the week. A quiet Friday from the market’s perspective given Melbourne’s public holiday today (and Much of Australia off for Monday). Materials continued to do well, offsetting the Energy sector which gave back some gains after a strong week. A small decline (-20pts / -0.29%) seen on the ASX200 this week.
The ASX200 traded ~25pts either side of yesterday’s close today before closing marginally lower in a choppy session. Resources sectors were the shining light today, Energy and Materials were the only areas of the market to finish higher. Local 2-year bond yields hit 2-month highs today, one of the reasons the broader market was weaker today.
A solid session given the weak leads from the US overnight, inflation came in as expected while we saw some bargain hunting in the property sector with some interesting moves playing out after a tough time.
The ASX attempted to follow the recovery that played out from weakness over the past two sessions, but it was all too much today, weighed by selling across the IT & Resources sectors as China heads towards a week of national holidays, starting on the 29th.
The ASX saw the worst of it early, down nearly 50 points before another spirited recovery ensued, in quiet trade, impacted by School holidays overlapping with the Rugby World Cup. Many Fundies no doubt wish they stayed on the desk rather than witness the Wallabies limp out in the pool rounds!
Local shares tracked higher into the weekend with the big end of town doing the heavy lifting. Banks were well supported, as were iron ore stocks as China’s Golden week wraps up and reports that the China Mineral Resources Group is getting on the front foot to secure supply for 2024. The Energy rout continued though with oil tumbling this week, a sharp ~8% decline put plenty of pressure on the sector, but’s it’s good from an inflation perspective.
Some respite across the ASX today with the market bouncing from the bottom of its trading range despite a fairly brutal night across material and energy stocks, both sectors lagged today but the slack was more than taken up by interest rate sensitive names, property stocks enjoyed the pullback in US bond yields which flowed through to our own bond market today while Tech rebounded nicely from an aggressive 3-week, 13% pullback that has improved the risk/reward materially in the number of the large cap names.
Another sell-off today with the ASX hitting the lowest close in 11-months, although the selling is fairly anaemic in nature and on very light holidays volumes, but still, the direction of least resistance has clearly been down since the ASX 200 peaked at the end of July at 7472, now down ~600pts/8% from that milestone, back at the very bottom of its 12-month trading range.
Quite a bizarre day for stocks with the market lower overall, although there were some decent intraday-rallies met with some decent intraday selling; ultimately a very choppy session on low school holiday volumes that saw the ASX 200 track back and test the bottom of its recent trading range – chalking up a 6-month low in the process.
Low volumes seen across the bourse to round out the week. A quiet Friday from the market’s perspective given Melbourne’s public holiday today (and Much of Australia off for Monday). Materials continued to do well, offsetting the Energy sector which gave back some gains after a strong week. A small decline (-20pts / -0.29%) seen on the ASX200 this week.
The ASX200 traded ~25pts either side of yesterday’s close today before closing marginally lower in a choppy session. Resources sectors were the shining light today, Energy and Materials were the only areas of the market to finish higher. Local 2-year bond yields hit 2-month highs today, one of the reasons the broader market was weaker today.
A solid session given the weak leads from the US overnight, inflation came in as expected while we saw some bargain hunting in the property sector with some interesting moves playing out after a tough time.
The ASX attempted to follow the recovery that played out from weakness over the past two sessions, but it was all too much today, weighed by selling across the IT & Resources sectors as China heads towards a week of national holidays, starting on the 29th.
The ASX saw the worst of it early, down nearly 50 points before another spirited recovery ensued, in quiet trade, impacted by School holidays overlapping with the Rugby World Cup. Many Fundies no doubt wish they stayed on the desk rather than witness the Wallabies limp out in the pool rounds!
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