A soft start to the new trading week which sees the vortex of local company results with the next 3 days seeing a significant number of company updates. There was certainly volatility at the stock level today with Iress (IRE) -35% & A2 Milk (A2M) -13.56% on the wrong side of it, while strong updates from Premier Investments (PMV) +12.23% and Breville (BRG) showed there is life left in retail!
A flat end to a tough week for markets with a lot to digest: Better US data drove bond yields higher, China property concerns as news of defaults linger pushed miners lower, while local reporting underpinned rising volatility across the board. Phew, it’s Friday!
The ASX fell again today, although some obvious ‘dip buying’ came to pass as reporting season continued to build, while a higher unemployment rate provided further evidence to support a continued RBA pause.
Weakness across international equity markets bled into the ASX today with shares trading to a 4-week low. The US market struggled following better-than-expected retail sales prints leading to upwards pressure on rates. This compounded concerns around China’s property market and economic growth outlook which has weighed on equity markets across the region in recent weeks, yesterday’s rate cut from the PBOC only providing short-term relief. Reporting season is now well and truly in full swing while CBA went ex-div today adding to the red on the index.
The vibe so far in reporting is a net positive one with more beats than misses, and more companies rallying post results despite some festering concern around what’s to come in FY24. That’s not to say everything is positive, but by-in-large, we’re doing okay and this was supportive of the ASX today which snapped a 2-day losing streak. Weaker data out of China continues to put pressure on the PBOC to stimulate, and while it remains largely elusive, the local resource stocks seemed to find some support from intra-day lows on optimism around such a move.
The ASX was hit today, weighed by growing concerns around the Chinese property sector as another large developer teeters on default - while earnings continue to dominate news flow locally. As of Friday, around 20% of the market’s total capitalisation had reported results, so far, so good with earnings beats outnumbering earnings misses by a solid ratio of 3:1, although we have seen adjustments lower for FY24 on softer outlooks.
A tentative end to a week that had a bit of everything, from company results here and overseas, important economic data, RBA testimony to parliament, a loss by Manly at Brookvale to end their season & now the biggest event of the week, the Matilda’s playing France on Saturday afternoon!
A solid day for the ASX as reporting threw up some more interesting candidates from a broad cross-section of industries, some hits, misses and a few in between, while we saw some action amongst the energy stocks with Crude breaking higher and Coal prices finding some support.
Shares started slowly today but found their mojo into the afternoon, finishing near highs on the back of strength in the banks. There was little change ahead of inflation data coming out of China mid-morning, but when that passed without concern, the focus returned to CBA’s record result.
The day started well with some reasonable buying across most major sectors however by midday, things had taken a turn and optimism was thin on the ground. A mixed bag from companies that reported results ahead of Commonwealth Bank (CBA) out with numbers tomorrow morning – we’ll cover them as they land.
A flat end to a tough week for markets with a lot to digest: Better US data drove bond yields higher, China property concerns as news of defaults linger pushed miners lower, while local reporting underpinned rising volatility across the board. Phew, it’s Friday!
The ASX fell again today, although some obvious ‘dip buying’ came to pass as reporting season continued to build, while a higher unemployment rate provided further evidence to support a continued RBA pause.
Weakness across international equity markets bled into the ASX today with shares trading to a 4-week low. The US market struggled following better-than-expected retail sales prints leading to upwards pressure on rates. This compounded concerns around China’s property market and economic growth outlook which has weighed on equity markets across the region in recent weeks, yesterday’s rate cut from the PBOC only providing short-term relief. Reporting season is now well and truly in full swing while CBA went ex-div today adding to the red on the index.
The vibe so far in reporting is a net positive one with more beats than misses, and more companies rallying post results despite some festering concern around what’s to come in FY24. That’s not to say everything is positive, but by-in-large, we’re doing okay and this was supportive of the ASX today which snapped a 2-day losing streak. Weaker data out of China continues to put pressure on the PBOC to stimulate, and while it remains largely elusive, the local resource stocks seemed to find some support from intra-day lows on optimism around such a move.
The ASX was hit today, weighed by growing concerns around the Chinese property sector as another large developer teeters on default - while earnings continue to dominate news flow locally. As of Friday, around 20% of the market’s total capitalisation had reported results, so far, so good with earnings beats outnumbering earnings misses by a solid ratio of 3:1, although we have seen adjustments lower for FY24 on softer outlooks.
A tentative end to a week that had a bit of everything, from company results here and overseas, important economic data, RBA testimony to parliament, a loss by Manly at Brookvale to end their season & now the biggest event of the week, the Matilda’s playing France on Saturday afternoon!
A solid day for the ASX as reporting threw up some more interesting candidates from a broad cross-section of industries, some hits, misses and a few in between, while we saw some action amongst the energy stocks with Crude breaking higher and Coal prices finding some support.
Shares started slowly today but found their mojo into the afternoon, finishing near highs on the back of strength in the banks. There was little change ahead of inflation data coming out of China mid-morning, but when that passed without concern, the focus returned to CBA’s record result.
The day started well with some reasonable buying across most major sectors however by midday, things had taken a turn and optimism was thin on the ground. A mixed bag from companies that reported results ahead of Commonwealth Bank (CBA) out with numbers tomorrow morning – we’ll cover them as they land.
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