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With the US market up ~5% overnight it’s safe to say a better effort from the Australian market was expected today, however a 25bp cut from the RBA and subsequent...

Volatility continued first up this morning with the weekend’s news flow hitting our market on open. We were pricing in a decline of 60pts based on Fridays trade in the...

Wow, what a week, it started on the back foot on Monday morning as the market came under significant pressure with the spread of the coronavirus outside of China, a...

Another decent sell-off in stocks today, although the overnight lead was worse that we experienced by the close. The ASX opened firmly on the backfoot following a big...

The market was hit today, and hit fairly hard being the first major market to soak up the coronavirus news over the weekend. The Aussie market is often used as a place...

A solid week of reporting this week and overall, it’s been a reasonable one. A number of our holdings have updated the market and at this stage we’re reasonably happy,...

The market traded up to our ~7200 target this morning on February index option expiry, we often see a squeeze into expiry which corresponds with a short term top in...

A reasonable day for the index today despite the heavyweight CBA going ex-div for $2. The biggest bank took 14pts off today but was little resistance to the broader...

Local reporting dominated the session today broken up by sporadic updates on the virus situation…reporting a mixed bag while the coronavirus continues to escalate - I...

A fairly quiet start to the week given the US is on holidays tonight, the ASX closing little changed after 4 straight sessions of gains. A number of stocks reported...

A more bullish session than we thought today thanks largely to continued buying amongst the banking stocks. This week saw both CBA and NAB report stronger margins...

A weak session today even though the market finished little changed. Early optimism (SPI +50pts early on) seemed to stem from another bid for Caltex (CTX) and traders...

The local market outperformed overnight leads today with the bulk of the work being done by the banks piggybacking off a good result from Commonwealth Bank (CBA). The...

Back in the winner’s circle today with the market charging higher again, the index trading well up through 7000 on good momentum across the market today. The IT stocks...

A weaker session locally today although the market did edge up from the session lows which were set around midday. Stocks were initially sold off with the index...

A weaker session to end the week although it’s been a very interesting 5 days in the market. The week started on the backfoot coming off a major selloff in the states...

A good session today across the board off the back of another good session overseas, plus Asian markets were strong, Japan up nearly +3% while Hong Kong & China were...

A fairly disappointing performance from the market today given the positive leads we saw overnight while Asian markets were also in the green for the day. It seemed to...

Following on the from weakness we saw overseas on Friday where the Dow Jones fell more than -600pts/-2%, Australian stocks were under the pump today, particularly the...

The market once again saw the best of it early before ebbing and flowing for much of the day, eventually giving back most of the early gains to close up, but only...