Stocks will be glad to see the back of January which saw the local ASX200 fall over 11% from its monthly high of 7620 to its low of 6758 with Healthcare and IT Sectors leading the descent e.g. 50% of the Australian tech names are already down over 20% year to date. The steep decline has made the quarterly range one of the largest in the last decade, especially if we remove the initial panic when COVID first entered our lives back in early 2020. However the declines have been very broad based with 13% of the ASX200 currently in the black while the unpopular Energy Sector dominates the winners...
Last week saw a continuation of Januarys surge in volatility but we feel it’s probably gone too far, at least short-term, with any further dips by equities in the coming weeks reasonable buying for active investors:
Equities have been hammered over the last 2-weeks as concerns that higher inflation is set to spark rate hikes across the globe gathered momentum and understandably / logically the high valuation growth names have borne the brunt of the selling. Thursday saw a 4% intra-day bearish turnaround as margin selling appeared to roll through the market after 11am, a short-term panic style bottom feels close at hand, or even in, and we should remember that seasonally buying a January pullback and holding into early Q2 has a great historical track record. I recently read an article by Shane Oliver...
Tuesday saw the ASX200 get savaged following a poor night on Wall Street and nerves ahead of the Feds pending interest rate decision, not to mention the market being closed for Australia Day creating the perfect storm for traders to have zero risk appetite. Its old news as we brace for this morning’s trade but less than 5% of the market managed to advance in the last session as we witnessed unrelenting broad-based selling wash through stocks, firstly lets quickly just evaluate what happened:
Many investors watched yesterday’s market with a large degree of trepidation and while the ASX200 bounced from its early morning lows it was definitely not a convincing recovery with the index still closing down 0.5%, making new 8-months lows and with only 32% of stocks managing to close in positive territory. While the aggressive selling witnessed on Friday wasn’t evident the underlying “risk off” theme continued as quality and defensive names were in demand across many sectors:
MM had been anticipating a very volatile 2022 for financial markets but its arrived faster than we expected, we’re only 3-weeks into January and the markets have already delivered some major swings:
The ASX200 put in a solid result yesterday managing to close slightly higher even after a torrid session on Wall Street, only 30% of the index closed positive but the gains in the resources names were enough to tip the balance. Gold stocks were the undoubted standouts across the board with even the relatively conservative play Newcrest Mining (NCM) managing to surge over 6.5% while our other specific exposure to the sector in MM’s Growth Portfolio, Northern Star Resources (NST), was the main boards top...
Yesterday felt like “15-love” to bond yields as the ASX200 was clobbered 76-points following a bad session on Wall Street which was then compounded by further weakness in the S&P500 futures during our day session. However 25% of stocks did still manage to close up on Wednesday with the gains feeling far more stock specific as opposed to...
Tuesday saw the Australian market slip just -0.1% after steadily surrendering the mornings gains through the afternoon, this morning we see another example of the ASX’s uncanny knack of picking major moves on overseas bourses. Yesterday saw only the Healthcare Sector move by over 1% and it was on the downside with losses pretty evenly spread throughout most stocks. At 4pm yesterday afternoon it felt like the regularly mentioned 7400 magnet was restraining local stocks but a few hours later as the US tech futures plunged 2% and bond yields surged to fresh 2-year highs the reason lurking beneath the surface became far more apparent.
The ASX200 continues to dance around the 7400 area, it’s now been well over 6-months of passing the performance baton between different stocks & sectors with the only constant being whenever the market looked ready to enter a trend it would reverse. Monday saw relatively broad based gains but an average day for a number of the major miners saw the markets final gain limited to 0.3% on a day which saw China appearing forced to cut rates as Omicron threatens their economic growth. The move by the PBOC...
Last week saw a continuation of Januarys surge in volatility but we feel it’s probably gone too far, at least short-term, with any further dips by equities in the coming weeks reasonable buying for active investors:
Equities have been hammered over the last 2-weeks as concerns that higher inflation is set to spark rate hikes across the globe gathered momentum and understandably / logically the high valuation growth names have borne the brunt of the selling. Thursday saw a 4% intra-day bearish turnaround as margin selling appeared to roll through the market after 11am, a short-term panic style bottom feels close at hand, or even in, and we should remember that seasonally buying a January pullback and holding into early Q2 has a great historical track record. I recently read an article by Shane Oliver...
Tuesday saw the ASX200 get savaged following a poor night on Wall Street and nerves ahead of the Feds pending interest rate decision, not to mention the market being closed for Australia Day creating the perfect storm for traders to have zero risk appetite. Its old news as we brace for this morning’s trade but less than 5% of the market managed to advance in the last session as we witnessed unrelenting broad-based selling wash through stocks, firstly lets quickly just evaluate what happened:
Many investors watched yesterday’s market with a large degree of trepidation and while the ASX200 bounced from its early morning lows it was definitely not a convincing recovery with the index still closing down 0.5%, making new 8-months lows and with only 32% of stocks managing to close in positive territory. While the aggressive selling witnessed on Friday wasn’t evident the underlying “risk off” theme continued as quality and defensive names were in demand across many sectors:
MM had been anticipating a very volatile 2022 for financial markets but its arrived faster than we expected, we’re only 3-weeks into January and the markets have already delivered some major swings:
The ASX200 put in a solid result yesterday managing to close slightly higher even after a torrid session on Wall Street, only 30% of the index closed positive but the gains in the resources names were enough to tip the balance. Gold stocks were the undoubted standouts across the board with even the relatively conservative play Newcrest Mining (NCM) managing to surge over 6.5% while our other specific exposure to the sector in MM’s Growth Portfolio, Northern Star Resources (NST), was the main boards top...
Yesterday felt like “15-love” to bond yields as the ASX200 was clobbered 76-points following a bad session on Wall Street which was then compounded by further weakness in the S&P500 futures during our day session. However 25% of stocks did still manage to close up on Wednesday with the gains feeling far more stock specific as opposed to...
Tuesday saw the Australian market slip just -0.1% after steadily surrendering the mornings gains through the afternoon, this morning we see another example of the ASX’s uncanny knack of picking major moves on overseas bourses. Yesterday saw only the Healthcare Sector move by over 1% and it was on the downside with losses pretty evenly spread throughout most stocks. At 4pm yesterday afternoon it felt like the regularly mentioned 7400 magnet was restraining local stocks but a few hours later as the US tech futures plunged 2% and bond yields surged to fresh 2-year highs the reason lurking beneath the surface became far more apparent.
The ASX200 continues to dance around the 7400 area, it’s now been well over 6-months of passing the performance baton between different stocks & sectors with the only constant being whenever the market looked ready to enter a trend it would reverse. Monday saw relatively broad based gains but an average day for a number of the major miners saw the markets final gain limited to 0.3% on a day which saw China appearing forced to cut rates as Omicron threatens their economic growth. The move by the PBOC...
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