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Call it Turnaround Tuesday! After a horror week last week and 7-successive days of declines, the ASX bounced today, recording a 1.4% gain. A bounce in cyclicals drove the gains. After taking a bath yesterday, materials and energy stocks gained 1.6% and 2.8%, respectively. Financials also added 2.6% and consumer stocks pushed higher. As far as top performers go, PointsBet jumped 7.8%, adding t...

An early rally fizzled as quickly as it began, undermined by steep falls in commodity prices that heaped pressure on the miners. The materials sector was slammed, tumbling 4.6% with the likes of BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue siding between 4.9% to 8.3%. Energy was hit even harder, sliding 5.2% on the back of recession fears. Utilities and staples also dragged, finishing with losses of 1.9% and 0.7%...

Snap, crackle and pop. A brutal end to a brutal week. The era of ASX outperformance seems to be well and truly over for now. Except for goldies and staples, it was another sea of red, led by materials, tech, energy, consumer discretionary and financials which fell between 1.4% and 2.8%. Industrials, utilities and REITs were the relative standouts, if you can call it that, managing to limit falls t...

Another disappointing performance, albeit unsurprising. It was a repeat of May with initial optimism following a supersized Fed rate hike evaporating rapidly. The investment environment has changed. Gone is buying the dips, replaced by selling the rips. There were plenty willing to partake today. At the individual level, Link tumbled 10.6% on renewed concerns surrounding its sale. At the other end...

With Australia’s 10-year bond yield soaring above 4%, rate sensitive sectors such as tech, REITs and healthcare were hammered, falling more than 1.5% apiece. Retailers were pressured with consumer discretionary sliding 1.9%, coinciding with the release of two dire consumer confidence readings earlier in the session. Financials, materials and energy fell 0.8%, 1% and 2.4% respectively, the latter t...

There’s not much left to say other than it was ugly. The largest percentage decline since May 2020, leaving the Australia’s blue chip index at the lowest level since January 2021. We’re now down 12.3% from the highs struck earlier this year. On a day when Australian benchmark 10-year bond yields jumped above 4% on speculation of faster and larger rate hikes, long duration sectors understandably st...

It was a very downbeat end to the worst week for Aussie equities in more than two years. A wide sweeping selloff saw the local index drop 1.25% to 6932 - finishing down 4.2%. The sectors unanimously closed in the red, with REITs, gold stocks and consumer discretionary leading the losses. Financials saw the most doom and gloom over the week as the big banks dragged the sector 9% lower. Winners...

Banks were smashed for a third day, sending the financial sector tumbling to lows last seen in March 2021. Westpac fell 3.5% while Bendigo and Adelaide Bank skidded 3.2%. The losses in the other retail banks ranged from 1.9% to 2.1%. However, unlike Wednesday, there was no sign of rotation into other sectors with only energy finishing higher. Materials slid 2.2%, coinciding with reports of new res...

It was a day characterised by M&A, C-Suite moves, profit warnings and an almighty rotation away from the banks. Financials were hammered, slumping 2.85%. Bendigo fell 6.9%, narrowly beating Westpac (-5.7%) as the biggest laggard for the session. Losses in other lenders ranged from 2% to 4.4%. Brutal. What happened to rate hikes boosting margins? Seems the only thing investors wanted to focus o...

The RBA delivered another shock to the market by hiking 50 basis points. Futures markets had been implying a 25-point hike with a slight chance of a move greater than that. Surveyed economists were mostly in the 25-point camp, with a few thinking 40 points. But it was another month and another surprise from the new, hawkish RBA. It pulled out a 50 pointer and now the cash rate is at 0.85%. Stocks...

Local stocks wallowed in negative territory to start the week, ignoring another bout of optimism relating to easing covid restrictions in China. Tech, communications, industrials and materials led the losses, falling 0.9% or more. The lack of reaction in the miners to gains in Chinese stocks and commodity futures suggests reopening optimism has now been entirely discounted by investors. Now it’s u...

Up 0.9% on the day and 0.8% on the week. It was a broad based day of gains with ten out of eleven sectors ending the day on a positive note. Why choose between value and growth? Have a bit of both! Materials and IT did the lion's share to lift the local index. Champion Iron making its mark to end the week - up more than 8%. Gold Road and Liontown Resources rounded out a co...

June has a reputation for being tough for markets. Perhaps we’re seeing that already. The local market sat in negative territory throughout the day with investors showing little willingness to take on risk. Perhaps it was caution ahead of tomorrow’s US jobs report or renewed hawkish rhetoric from central bankers. Maybe it was concern about the chaos in Australia’s east coast energy market. Pick yo...

The local market edged higher to start the month, helped by a bid in blue chips. There was a clear tilt towards quality names, perhaps reflecting that June is traditionally not great for market returns. The S&P/ASX 20 jumped 1.4%. In contrast, the Small Ordinaries slid 1.7%. Chalk and cheese. Utilities was the laggard, slumping 5.3% as Origin Energy withdrew guidance and warned of “extreme vol...

Investors took risk off the table to close out May, logging the second monthly decline in a row. After big gains in the previous two sessions, it was a soggy day all round with every sector finishing lower, led by consumer discretionary, financials, technology and telecommunications which all skidded by more than 1.5%. Not even better-than-expected final GDP inputs were enough to get investors exc...

The market opened higher and kept on going, closing at three-week highs. It was a quintessential melt-up Monday, helped by soft volumes, month-end window dressing and hopes for a policy pivot from the Fed. Every sector except industrials finished higher, led by a 4.6% surge in information technology. Utilities fell 0.7%, dragged lower by a 1% decline in AGL shares as the company scrapped plans to...

Friday finished the week with a bang - the ASX200 added 1.1% for the session, taking the index into positive territory or the week. The gains were broadbased. But from an index point of view, Rio and BHP carried the load. The outperforming sectors were energy, thanks to an overnight rally in oil, and consumer discretionary, with our consumer stocks again taking the lead from Wall Street’s moves. U...

The S&P/ASX 200 took a spill just after the witching hour and it was one-way trade after that. The index shed 0.7% for the session, in a day of broad based losses which saw 10 of 11 sectors finish lower. IT was the lone winner after the NASDAQ's overnight rally. Appen was the big mover of the day, climbing almost 30% before entering a trading halt as Telus International - a Canadian telco...

A few nerves crept in at the close, but it was a winning day with the local market ending in the green - settling up 0.37% to 7155. Agriculture was the place to be, percentage wise. Costa Group added 8.5% after a positive update at its AGM, and Nufarm gained 5.6% back after yesterday's selloff inspired by Sumitomo Chemicals selling its stake in the company. Perseus Mining wrapped up its...

"Not mad, just disappointed," could sum up many investors' sentiment towards the market again today after the S&P/ASX 200 flopped 0.28% to 7129. Tabcorp plummeted 81% after is spun off its lottery and Keno business, which is now listed as The Lottery Corporation (TLC). Nufarm dropped 14% on news Sumitomo Chemical sold its 16% block trade in the company worth some $324 million. Miners...

The local marketed moved with less conviction than Aussie voters over the weekend; while chewing over the Federal election outcome the S&P/ASX 200 closed up a measly 0.05% to 7148.9. Materials once again supported the broader market - adding 0.8%. Codan was the stock specific winner, ending the day up 14.5% after flagging its second half profits should match its record $50 million fi...

Friday is quickly becoming “buy-day” with the local bourse staging another big rally to end the week. Buying kicked in as soon as the market opened, helped along by China’s central bank cutting a key interest rate linked to mortgages. Options expiry in the United States was also cited as a factor behind the big gains. Chalice Mining topped the leader board, jumping 18.7% after obtaining permission...

The winning streak is over, coming to a shuddering end as strong inflation and slowing consumer demand sparked a global sell off. But it could have been worse. Just ask Wall Street. Most sectors finished deep in the red, led by big falls in consumer discretionary and staples, mirroring the performance in States overnight. The former slumped 3.1%, the latter 3.7%. Wesfarmers, arguably the closest t...

Three from three became four from four, extending the bounce to 3.5%. So far so good for the rebuild. Mirroring Wall Street, buying was widespread, led materials, industrials, REITs and tech which added more than 1.8%. Curiously, big gains in the miners came despite big falls in Chinese commodity futures during the session. The strong performance may have been helped by a softer-than-expected Aust...

Make that three from three. We haven’t seen a winning streak like this in nearly a month. Energy led the gains, adding 2.1%. The coal producers had a strong session with Whitehaven up 5.5%. New Hope wasn’t far behind with an increase of 4.3%. Speculation that lockdowns in China may soon end helped materials which rose 1.1%. The battery names found some spark with Allkem, Mineral Resources and Core...