Posts Tagged ‘Nikkei’

ASX200 fell early and then clawed back its losses to finish one pt up at 5047 while the Small Ords finished lower by -0.4%. Across the sectors, Telecoms led up 1.6% while Metals & Mining was up 1.1%.  Materials and Financials were higher 0.9% and 0.1% respectively.  On the down side, Cons Staples and IT were lower by -1.2% while Property was down -1% and Healthcare and Industrials were down -0.5%.  Utilities were also down -0.4% and Energy down -0.3%. Overall, […]


ASX200 rose through the day before settling back to finish up 0.1% at 5046 while the Small Ords finished lower by -0.1%. Across the sectors, IT was higher by 0.7% while Financials was up 0.5% and Cons Staples and Cons Disc were both up 0.3%.  Property rose 0.2% and Utilities and Healthcare were both up about 0.1%.  Energy was the worst sector, down -1.2% while Industrials was up 0.5% and Materials and Metals & Mining were both down -0.4% Overall, […]


It was a week of earnings and consolidation as the ASX200 stayed above the 5000 mark and we watched reasonable earnings reports out of the US. The Australian equity market had an average start to the week but consolidated its gains and finished the week as one of the best performers globally, rising over 1.4% on […]


ASX200 jumped higher and then traded slightly lower over the course of the day, closing up 0.6% at 5002  while the Small Ords was up strongly 1.5%.  It was the highest close in over two months. Across the sectors, Metals & Mining rose 1.4% while Energy and Materials rose 1.1% and 1.0% respectively.  Cons Staples, ITand Cons Disc rose 0.8% while Financials and Telecoms rose 0.7% and 0.6% respectively.  The smallest […]


It felt like a pretty good week until Friday when we gave back most of the gains. The Australian equity market this week continued to grind upwards, opening from 4974 but lost ground on the final day, closing the week down 0.04% to finish at 4972. The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday said in their July […]


The Week that was: The Australian equity market this week continued to grind upwards, finishing 2.7% up for the week after closing 4810 on Monday to end at 4974 on this past Friday. Some data points from the week included: Chinese trade surplus widened with exports decreasing by 3.1% (vs exp 3.7%) though it was offset by […]


ASX200 traded down right away and then clawed back some pts over the day but finished down -0.5% at 4960 while the Small Ords finished lower -1.4%.  IT was the fifth straight day down and a five week low. Not all sectors were down, Telecoms and REITs were up 0.7% and 0.3% respectively while Metals […]