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A huge day for some areas of the Australian market today, particularly the banking stocks and the private health insurers as they were aggressively singled out as net...

A bullish open for the local market this morning as traders pushed stocks sharply higher into an early top just below 6400, however that was the best of it as sellers...

The Aussie market latched onto the ‘lower interest rate’ trade today, and rallied strongly after the employment data dropped at 11.30am – the buying intensified into...

Stocks recovered most of the losses incurred the prior session today – Energy and Resources the main game in town however the buying was very broad based with all...

US markets were hit hard overnight, the Dow Jones down ~700pts at the worst while the tech stocks were hit harder – the Nasdaq down nearly ~3.50% on the session thanks...

Another fairly busy session today with weakness in US Futures before our open this morning thanks to Trump’s tweets over the weekend ensuring we opened on the back...

Another busy week in the markets wrapped up on a positive note despite the US this afternoon imposing an increased 25% tariff on about $200 billion of Chinese goods,...

A short note this afternoon after a busy day on the desk + I’m down a couple of foot soldiers today… the ASX had a reasonable session particularly considering the...

The Trump / China trade hangover lingered over the market this morning and we’d expect that theme to continue for the remainder of the week, however it wasn’t all...

After 32 months of inaction by the RBA they stayed true to form today, and did nothing for the 33rd time deciding to put more weight behind strength in the employment...

A weak session today for the local market with the index down ~90pts at its worst thanks to Trumps tweets around China / US Trade… China responded saying they are...

A more subdued session today at the index level with the market fairly flat, although under the hood, there were a number of big movers. Macquarie Group (MQG) dropped...

Stocks fell today with the financials leading the decline – ANZ the worst of the banks after a litany of downgrades filtered through post yesterday’s result. The first...

A bullish day for Aussie stocks with the banks underpinning the strength at the index level following ANZ’s 1H numbers – more on that below, however hard to not see...

Another day where sellers took the gong - the index traded down however there was a lot happening under the hood with the Macquarie Equities Conference underway – more...

The ASX drifted marginally lower today, pulling back from recent highs but not aggressively so. Most Asian markets were higher while US futures were pretty flat during...

I felt like I was one of only a handful in the city today with the Easter School Holidays overlapping ANZAC Day and creating the perfect excuse to take or extend...

Another really strong day for Aussie stocks as traders position for further interest rate cuts locally following a weaker than expected print on inflation at...