Australian Market Modestly Lower

RTTNews | 654 days ago
Australian Market Modestly Lower

(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is modestly lower on Monday, giving up the slight gains in the previous session, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 staying above the 7,000 mark, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street on Friday, with weakness across most sectors, led by miners and technology stocks.

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is losing 23.50 points or 0.33 percent to 7,045.30, after hitting a low of 7,022.90 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is down 24.00 points or 0.33 percent to 7,246.00. Australian stocks closed slightly higher on Friday.

Among the major miners, Rio Tinto and BHP Group are edging down 0.4 to 0.5 percent each, while Mineral Resources is declining more than 1 percent and Fortescue Metals is losing almost 1 percent.

Oil stocks are mostly lower. Woodside Energy, Origin Energy and Santos are edging down 0.2 to 0.3 percent each, while Beach energy is losing 1.5 percent.

Among tech stocks, Afterpay owner Block is losing almost 3 percent, Xero is edging down 0.2 percent, Appen is declining more than 2 percent and Zip is slipping almost 4 percent, while WiseTech Global is edging up 0.1 percent.

Gold miners are mostly lower. Gold Road Resources and Northern Star Resources are losing more than 2 percent each, while Evolution Mining and Resolute Mining are declining almost 3 percent each. Newcrest Mining is down more than 1 percent.

Among the big four banks, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ Banking and National Australia Bank are losing almost 1 percent each, while Westpac is down more than 1 percent.

In the currency market, the Aussie dollar is trading at $0.644 on Monday.

On Wall Street, stocks saw substantial volatility in the latter part of the trading session on Friday after an early move to the upside. The major averages showed wild swings back and forth across the unchanged line before eventually ending the day modestly lower.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq edged down 12.18 points or 0.1 percent 13,211.81, its lowest closing level in over three months. The S&P 500 also dipped 9.94 points or 0.2 percent to a three-month closing low of 4,320.06, while the Dow fell 106.58 points or 0.3 percent to a two-month closing low of 33,963.84.

Meanwhile, the major European markets also finished the day mixed. While the U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index inched up by 0.1 percent, the German DAX Index edged down by 0.1 percent and the French CAC 40 Index fell by 0.4 percent.

Crude oil prices briefly fell into the red a little past noon on Friday, but recovered swiftly to end the day's session on a firm note. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures for November settled with a loss of $0.40 or about 0.5% at $90.03 a barrel. WTI crude futures shed 0.6% in the week, the first weekly loss in four weeks.

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