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Volatility was back in town today thanks to Mr Trumps barrage of tweets over the weekend and subsequent escalation of the China – US trade tussle. US Futures opened...

The market crept higher to round out a reasonable week of trading. There wasn’t a great deal of direction given from overseas markets with many investors watching for...

A strong rebound for local stocks today with broad-based buying across all sectors despite a slightly weaker than expected result from BHP. Energy was the standout...

A better day for Aussie stocks with most sectors finishing higher following a more bullish session overseas. The high beta IT stocks did best with the likes of Appen...

A big week of reporting / market turmoil as the newspapers would call it with global equity markets taking a hit. Concerns around an inverted yield curve, more Trump...

An interesting session played out locally following a strong rebound from US stocks overnight, the Dow Jones adding +372pts underpinning our futures which traded...

Negative leads from overseas had the ASX on the back foot early. However, buyers stepped into the fray and bought stocks into weakness, pushing the index up near...

A reasonable day for local stocks with the market overcoming much of the early weakness to end the session largely flat, the Health Care sector was best on ground,...

The local market started its session with heavy selling on the open, only to bounce back from 11am to close on its highs at 6568, led by the gold and resource...

The local market revered back to the previous sentiment in July, on the back of the NZ Reserve Bank reducing its key interest rate from 1.5% to 1% this afternoon. This...

A big day for the local market with the index losing another 2.44% coming on the back of a 1.90% decline yesterday – the drop from recent highs to today’s low is now...

A day where volatility kicked hard and we saw broad based selling across local and international markets – the catalyst / straw that broke the proverbial back was an...

The market quickly turned its focus back on the escalating US China trade war today following a twitter spat from Trump overnight. The US market fell 2% from their...

The ASX200 quickly rallied to a new intraday all-time high this morning despite a muted lead from the US markets overnight. Banks and resources rallied together to...

Reporting season is now upon us and this morning we had Credit Corp (CCP) out with full year results, the stock down -6.17% on the session highlighting the volatility...

Momentum continues to carry the market higher with another day which saw solid intraday buying, pushing the market within 0.5% of an all-time high. Banks were the...

The market traded to a new 10 year high today buoyed by the prospect of lower interest rates as forecast by Westpac’s well regarded Chief Economist Bill Evans. He...

A fairly upbeat sort of day for the Australian share market with a strong open backed up by reasonable buying throughout the session. The Energy sector was best on...

A fairly quiet day at the index level overall (-9 points) with the market peaking +10 points up around lunchtime before the sellers took hold. It looked like a decent...

The market stormed ahead to finish the week with the spurt higher, ticking around the 6700 level, near to where the ASX200 started the week helped by more dovish...