A choppy and ultimately negative day for the ASX where buying in Energy & Materials was more than offset by a sharp pullback in Tech, although weakness was obvious right across the sectors negatively influenced by higher interest rates.
The local bourse was on the front foot initially, rallying ~0.5% early in the session before caution returned, seemingly the market has lost its mojo after the RBAs hike, failing to hold on to gains. The end result from the index perspective was a small fall as the ASX200 closed on the intraday lows, but there was significant volatility on the sector front.
The local market was on the back foot for most of the session today thanks to softer US markets overnight before yet another hike by the RBA resigned shares to a drop of more than 1%. The latest hike takes Australian interest rates to an 11-year high while Governor Lowe’s commentary seems to suggest he’s not done yet. Discretionary stocks took a hit as a result with a downgrade in the sector not helping the already negative market view of the space being squeezed by tighter household budgets.
A strong start to the week with the ASX holding onto the majority of the gains that were flagged by futures markets this morning. The recently depressed Consumer Discretionary & Materials sectors bounced back while Technology gave back some recent outperformance.
The ASX had a good crack at closing higher on the week today after a very volatile 5 sessions, only just falling short of the milestone in the end. Materials were helped by stronger commodity prices and a softer USD, both reversing moves from earlier in the week with a relief rally for global growth leverage following the US Debt ceiling vote.
A pretty quiet day on the news flow front with the market drifting higher to recover some of yesterday’s freefall. The early session sugar hit came from the US lower house passing the debt ceiling relief bill but aside from that there was little to move markets for the first session of the new month. Tech continued its rally while Healthcare was the star performer of the sectors.
Overseas markets underperformed overnight which weighed on the open here locally. Resources were particularly on the back foot with strength in the USD putting pressure on materials while coal also fell to 2-year lows to hold energy stocks back. The rest of the market followed suit, particularly following a higher-than-expected CPI print at 11.30 am, up 6.8% in April vs the 6.4% expected. A very weak close resigned the ASX200 to its worst day since March.
It was a pretty muted session from the index point of view today with very little to drive markets following the US observing Memorial Day today. Real Estate gave back much of yesterday’s outperformance, followed by weakness in coal stocks weighing on the Energy sector. Banks were also marginally lower today, partly offset by strength in Telcos.
The local market was on the front foot early, jumping almost exactly +100pts/+1.4% on the open today following a tentative deal on the US debt ceiling. The ASX followed a positive move from the US on Friday night with US Futures adding to gains during trade this morning, however, the rally was sold into with the S&P500 Futures currently trading ~0.5% from the session highs. Tech in particular finished well of intraday highs after some profit-taking kicked in.
A quiet end to a busy week for markets with competing factors creating some big divergence across sectors. For the week, the ASX 200 fell by -1.68% while the Small Cap Index was off by -2.86% - smalls still can’t take a trick! These moves however underplay the variance across sectors with IT up +4.7% contrasted by the Materials sector which fell 3.45%.
The local bourse was on the front foot initially, rallying ~0.5% early in the session before caution returned, seemingly the market has lost its mojo after the RBAs hike, failing to hold on to gains. The end result from the index perspective was a small fall as the ASX200 closed on the intraday lows, but there was significant volatility on the sector front.
The local market was on the back foot for most of the session today thanks to softer US markets overnight before yet another hike by the RBA resigned shares to a drop of more than 1%. The latest hike takes Australian interest rates to an 11-year high while Governor Lowe’s commentary seems to suggest he’s not done yet. Discretionary stocks took a hit as a result with a downgrade in the sector not helping the already negative market view of the space being squeezed by tighter household budgets.
A strong start to the week with the ASX holding onto the majority of the gains that were flagged by futures markets this morning. The recently depressed Consumer Discretionary & Materials sectors bounced back while Technology gave back some recent outperformance.
The ASX had a good crack at closing higher on the week today after a very volatile 5 sessions, only just falling short of the milestone in the end. Materials were helped by stronger commodity prices and a softer USD, both reversing moves from earlier in the week with a relief rally for global growth leverage following the US Debt ceiling vote.
A pretty quiet day on the news flow front with the market drifting higher to recover some of yesterday’s freefall. The early session sugar hit came from the US lower house passing the debt ceiling relief bill but aside from that there was little to move markets for the first session of the new month. Tech continued its rally while Healthcare was the star performer of the sectors.
Overseas markets underperformed overnight which weighed on the open here locally. Resources were particularly on the back foot with strength in the USD putting pressure on materials while coal also fell to 2-year lows to hold energy stocks back. The rest of the market followed suit, particularly following a higher-than-expected CPI print at 11.30 am, up 6.8% in April vs the 6.4% expected. A very weak close resigned the ASX200 to its worst day since March.
It was a pretty muted session from the index point of view today with very little to drive markets following the US observing Memorial Day today. Real Estate gave back much of yesterday’s outperformance, followed by weakness in coal stocks weighing on the Energy sector. Banks were also marginally lower today, partly offset by strength in Telcos.
The local market was on the front foot early, jumping almost exactly +100pts/+1.4% on the open today following a tentative deal on the US debt ceiling. The ASX followed a positive move from the US on Friday night with US Futures adding to gains during trade this morning, however, the rally was sold into with the S&P500 Futures currently trading ~0.5% from the session highs. Tech in particular finished well of intraday highs after some profit-taking kicked in.
A quiet end to a busy week for markets with competing factors creating some big divergence across sectors. For the week, the ASX 200 fell by -1.68% while the Small Cap Index was off by -2.86% - smalls still can’t take a trick! These moves however underplay the variance across sectors with IT up +4.7% contrasted by the Materials sector which fell 3.45%.
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