Monday morning should have reminded us all that M&A is alive and well in 2021 as an infrastructure consortium bid $22.6bn for the embattled Sydney Airports (SYD), the 42% premium to Fridays close would have sent a sigh of relief through much of the local investment community who have been major supporters of this classic “yield play” stock since the GFC.
It already feels like a long week and its only Friday morning, the combination of being in lockdown and EOFY has been exhausting, the market itself is only down -0.6% so it’s certainly not any wild gyrations in stocks draining our energy levels.
A new financial year is upon us and if its only half as good as FY20/21’s it will still be well above the average performance of recent decades but with the tailwind of huge fiscal and monetary stimulus diminishing fast MM believes the next year is likely to be very different to the last one. Already in 2021 we’ve seen a noticeable migration back towards the value sector and in particular the banks which has helped the ASX200 rally +11% since January 1st i.e. the average gain of the “Big Four” banks has been +23.7% as they’ve embraced the prospect of higher bond yields.
The ASX200 fell early yesterday only to recover virtually all of the losses after midday to close down just 0.1% - how many times have we written that in the last 12-months! Almost 50% of the Australian population being thrown back into a COVID lockdown has been taken in its stride by the local market illustrating the inherent buying into any weakness.
The ASX200 put in an admirable performance on Monday to close basically unchanged even as the country slowly but surely slipped back into a COVID induced lockdown.
Today’s report as its name suggests usually focuses on the macro-economic factors driving financial markets both today and into the future, however as Sydney goes into a 2-week full lockdown and the rest of Australia feels in danger of following suit the deteriorating local virus picture looks highly likely to dominate both the end of the this financial year, & the start of FY22 - NSW represents ~30% of Australia’s GDP.
The ASX200 finished a choppy session slightly lower yesterday dragged into the red predominantly by some weakness in the banks and healthcare stocks but considering the escalating Sydney COVID outbreak it was a fairly lacklustre affair.
Monday morning should have reminded us all that M&A is alive and well in 2021 as an infrastructure consortium bid $22.6bn for the embattled Sydney Airports (SYD), the 42% premium to Fridays close would have sent a sigh of relief through much of the local investment community who have been major supporters of this classic “yield play” stock since the GFC.
It already feels like a long week and its only Friday morning, the combination of being in lockdown and EOFY has been exhausting, the market itself is only down -0.6% so it’s certainly not any wild gyrations in stocks draining our energy levels.
A new financial year is upon us and if its only half as good as FY20/21’s it will still be well above the average performance of recent decades but with the tailwind of huge fiscal and monetary stimulus diminishing fast MM believes the next year is likely to be very different to the last one. Already in 2021 we’ve seen a noticeable migration back towards the value sector and in particular the banks which has helped the ASX200 rally +11% since January 1st i.e. the average gain of the “Big Four” banks has been +23.7% as they’ve embraced the prospect of higher bond yields.
The ASX200 fell early yesterday only to recover virtually all of the losses after midday to close down just 0.1% - how many times have we written that in the last 12-months! Almost 50% of the Australian population being thrown back into a COVID lockdown has been taken in its stride by the local market illustrating the inherent buying into any weakness.
The ASX200 put in an admirable performance on Monday to close basically unchanged even as the country slowly but surely slipped back into a COVID induced lockdown.
Today’s report as its name suggests usually focuses on the macro-economic factors driving financial markets both today and into the future, however as Sydney goes into a 2-week full lockdown and the rest of Australia feels in danger of following suit the deteriorating local virus picture looks highly likely to dominate both the end of the this financial year, & the start of FY22 - NSW represents ~30% of Australia’s GDP.
The ASX200 finished a choppy session slightly lower yesterday dragged into the red predominantly by some weakness in the banks and healthcare stocks but considering the escalating Sydney COVID outbreak it was a fairly lacklustre affair.
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