CommSec Daily Report Friday
Latest NewsThe Aussie market has started the month of March on a weaker tone with the ASX 200 51 points or 0.85% lower to fall below 6000 points at 5964. This follows on from yesterday’s 0.7% drop. US markets didn’t provide a positive lead with the main indices all weaker overnight. February was the worst…
CommSec Daily Report Thursday
Latest NewsThe Aussie market has started the month of March on a weaker tone with the ASX 200 51 points or 0.85% lower to fall below 6000 points at 5964. This follows on from yesterday’s 0.7% drop. US markets didn’t provide a positive lead with the main indices all weaker overnight. February was the worst…
‘What we make of it’: Labour’s Corbyn to outline Brexit vision Monday
Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will on Monday call for Britain to keep tariff-free access to the EU after Brexit, arguing that withdrawal from the bloc is ‘what we make of it’, according to excerpts of his speech..Corbyn will call for ‘a bespoke relationship’ with the European Union that appears to mirror the bloc’s current…
CommSec Daily Report Tuesday
Latest NewsLocal shares are off to weaker start to the day with US markets closed overnights and many Asian markets still closed for the Lunar New Year. Attention turned to the European markets with major bourses falling overnight. The ASX 200 is softer by 18 points or 0.3% to 5923 points, reversing some of yesterday’s…
US stocks gain for 5th straight day, Dow +1.2%
Wall Street stocks enjoyed more solid gains Thursday, climbing for a fifth straight session and shrugging off fresh data showing higher inflation.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.2 percent to end the day at 25,200.37.The broad-based S&P 500 jumped 1.2 percent to close at 2,731.20, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 1.6 percent to…
CommSec Daily Report Friday
Latest NewsLocal shares are continuing on from the best day of gains seen yesterday on the local bourse. The ASX 200 is 8pts or 0.1% higher and has broken above the 5900 point mark and looking. Overnight, US markets rose by more than 1% with the release of producer prices and industrial production data. The…
CommSec Daily Report Thursday
Latest NewsLocal shares have been boosted by a strong showing from US sharemarkets overnight. US traders digested the release of US inflation data which came in higher than forecast in January, higher inflationary pressures have been one of the causes of the recent market volatility. However a slowdown in retail sales tempered views about the…
US stocks end higher for 3rd straight day
Wall Street stocks finished higher Tuesday, rising for a third straight session, amid somewhat better investor sentiment ahead of a closely-watched US inflation report.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2 percent to end at 24,640.45.The broad-based S&P 500 gained 0.3 percent to close at 2,662.94, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.5 percent to…
CommSec Daily Report Monday
Latest newsThe Australian market is off to a softer start this morning, shrugging off a positive lead from a volatile Wall Street with the ASX 200 down by 0.6 per cent. Equities are being weighed down by losses near 1 per cent for the banks as the Royal Commission kicks off together with substantial falls…
CommSec Daily Report Thursday
Latest NewsAussie shares are mostly unchanged with a choppy open to trade. The ASX 200 is trading around three points higher after being down by as much as 0.6% earlier in the session. This follows a volatile session in US markets overnight. There were big swings on the Dow Jones with the index trading in…
