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The final trading day of October was a another negative one for the ASX capping off a negative month overall for the market with the ASX 200 down -1.18%. Today it was...

Sellers dominated today with the index on the skids from mid-morning onwards, the selling really kicking into gear post local inflation data at 11.30am that printed in...

Another session of low conviction and light volumes with early optimism again sold into. The market is certainly struggling to hold any meaningful assault on the 6800...

After opening higher this morning , the market chopped around in a tight +/-15pt range throughout the day, although it did end near the highs of the sessions. A fairly...

While the market closed fairly flat on the session overall there was some decent movement under the hood . Weakness early leading into an 11.30am low before a...

A good session for local stocks to finish the week thanks mostly to some improving rumours out of the US-China trade talks. Reports are now indicating a partial deal...

A roller coaster ride in today’s session, with mixed reports that Chinese officials will stay for the course of the trade talks then after a short time, we see reports...

A softer session locally following weakness overseas, although we did see the worst of the session early on with the market bottoming out at 10.30am before it grinded...

Not a lot happening across markets today, although the ASX did grind higher again on the session defying the negative lead in from the US. Last week the market was...

The market embraced the overseas weakness today with the local index down more than 100pts, a sell-off we’ve been targeting and a reminder that selling is often more...

An interesting session locally with the RBA front and centre cutting rates as expected to 0.75% at 2.30pm this afternoon, the lowest level in history and enough to...

A choppy session for end of month / end of quarter trading with the usual end of period window dressing failing to materialise today. Normally we see big...

The best of the session was seen early with the market opening marginally higher this morning up +10pts at one stage before sellers stepped in and the market grinded...

The market opened on the back foot this morning with SPI Futures off ~70pts thanks to weakness overseas, however as the Aussie Dollar tracked lower intra-day, our...

The local market traded lower from the get go today with the US market’s soft lead flowing through to the ASX. It was the manufacturing data last night that saw the...

Stocks had a choppy day overall despite closing flat on the session, some large lines in the futures markets seemed the catalyst with the SPI Futures trading in a...

Stocks were down early this morning tracking weakness in US Futures following yesterday’s move by the Trump administration to implement its planned 15% tariffs on...

I was at fathers day breakfast this morning and a picture of Boris Johnson flicked up….my 8 eight year old asked if that was Donald Trumps son! Classic call. Happy...

Today marks the final day of the local reporting season and it’s been a challenging one for investors. Beats have been slightly ahead of misses on FY19 numbers however...

A positive move from overseas markets last night however that took a while to sink in locally with stocks fairly muted early on. By 11am buyers were out and the mkt...