The local sharemarket finished the week on a negative tone, falling 0.8 per cent, but it wasn’t enough offset the exuberance on Tuesday. Only the energy sector managed to post a positive result on Friday, up 1 per cent, behind a rally in Origin (ASX:ORG) and Santos (ASX:STO) which gained 1.2 and 1.9 per cent….
The local market finished just 2 points higher today, all but a rounding error, as gains in the energy and utilities sectors, up 2.2 and 1.1 per cent, offset losses in the consumer and property sectors, which were down 0.8 and 0.7 per cent. The highlights remain from the traditional fossil fuel sectors as Woodside…
The local sharemarket delivered it’s best one day return since the worst of the pandemic, with the S&P/ASX200 gaining 2.6 per cent on Tuesday. The move was driven by a slight shift in narrative and policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia, which decided to increase the cash rate by 25 rather than 50 basis…
The local sharemarket finished 0.3 per cent lower to begin the new quarter, with strength in the utilities, energy and property sectors not enough to offset broader weakness in the market. The energy sector gained 1 per cent after OPEC+ announced its intention to cut oil production in response to falling prices, just as investors…
The energy sector powered the Australian sharemarket on Thursday, with a 2.8 per cent gain on the back of the apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream sub-sea pipelines linking Europe and Russia. This helped the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index to gain 93 points, or 1.4 per cent to 6,555, while the broader All Ordinaries advanced 100.8 points, or…
After three consecutive losing days, the Australian sharemarket turned northward again on Tuesday, led by the resources stocks. After being scorched on Monday, the ASX’s coal and lithium stocks rallied on Tuesday as global markets stabilised, as did energy prices, despite rising recession risks. The S&P/ASX 200 Index added 26.8 points, or 0.4 per cent,…
With the worst losses in two years for the ASX’s mining and energy sectors, there was no way that the Australian share market’s major indices were gaining ground yesterday, and so it unfolded. The mining sub-index slid 5.3 per cent, its worst day since a 6.8 per cent fall on May 1, 2020, while the…
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Utilities and tech shares dragged the S&P/ASX 200 lower on Monday, as the benchmark lost 19.2 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 6,719.9 points, its lowest closing level in two months. Real estate was the only sub-index to post a gain, led by heavyweight real estate investment trust (REIT) GPT, which gained 9 cents, or…
It was a sea of red on the S&P/ASX200, with the market closing down 1.5 per cent on Friday, resulting in a 2.1 per cent loss for the week. A reversal in the energy sector, triggered by a resolution of potential railroad strikes sent the energy sector down 3 per cent, with Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC)…
