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End of Day Report – Thursday 22 August: ASX 200 up for 10 days straight | All about results
ASX 200 rose another 17 points to 8027 (+0.2%) as Super Thursday produced a head-spinning deluge. Again, some good, some bad, and some very ugly. MP1 for one down 21.0%. Once again, we saw resources outperform banks slightly. The 'Three Amigos' were firm, FMG the best, up 2.0% and lithium stocks a smidge firmer, PLS up 2.0% and LYC up another 1.3%. Gold miners were mixed, NST up 1.7% on results, EVN up 0.5% but EMR off 1.9%. Oil and gas were sidelined, WDS and STO fell on lower crude prices. Uranium not doing much either. In the coal space, WHC ran 6.3% on good numbers and the sale of assets. YAL bounced slightly after the results recently. Banks, solid, the Big Bank Basket unchanged at $233.36. Insurers fell, QBE off 0.9% and MPL dropped 2.3% on numbers. MQG doing little, with REITs better. GMG missing out slightly again. Industrials were all about the results. Retail once again in focus, SUL up 6.2% on its special dividend, LOV up 1.9% with travel stocks down again, WEB off 1.0% and CTD falling 7.4%. DMP also fell 6.0% like the proverbial. In corporate news, plenty. CKF crashed 12.9%, GEM warned of difficult times, falling 7.5%, BOQ sacked 400 and warned too, dipped 7.3%. IFL fell 15.7% as its complicated and disappointing. result. Not much on the economic front. Powell in focus. In Asian markets, mostly higher on Flash Business activity number in Japan. Nikkei up 0.3%, HK up 0.6% and China off 0.3%. 10-year yields, 3.89%.
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ASX 200 rose another 17 points to 8027 (+0.2%) as Super Thursday produced a head-spinning deluge. Again, some good, some bad, and some very ugly. MP1 for one down 21.0%. Once again, we saw resources outperform banks slightly. The 'Three Amigos' were firm, FMG the best, up 2.0% and lithium stocks a smidge firmer, PLS up 2.0% and LYC up another 1.3%. Gold miners were mixed, NST up 1.7% on results, EVN up 0.5% but EMR off 1.9%. Oil and gas were sidelined, WDS and STO fell on lower crude prices. Uranium not doing much either. In the coal space, WHC ran 6.3% on good numbers and the sale of assets. YAL bounced slightly after the results recently. Banks, solid, the Big Bank Basket unchanged at $233.36. Insurers fell, QBE off 0.9% and MPL dropped 2.3% on numbers. MQG doing little, with REITs better. GMG missing out slightly again. Industrials were all about the results. Retail once again in focus, SUL up 6.2% on its special dividend, LOV up 1.9% with travel stocks down again, WEB off 1.0% and CTD falling 7.4%. DMP also fell 6.0% like the proverbial. In corporate news, plenty. CKF crashed 12.9%, GEM warned of difficult times, falling 7.5%, BOQ sacked 400 and warned too, dipped 7.3%. IFL fell 15.7% as its complicated and disappointing. result. Not much on the economic front. Powell in focus. In Asian markets, mostly higher on Flash Business activity number in Japan. Nikkei up 0.3%, HK up 0.6% and China off 0.3%. 10-year yields, 3.89%.
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