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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...