By Chris Becker
After a small uptick on US markets on Friday night, Asian markets followed in suit today, with the ASX200 closing up 0.6% today – for a full roundup, see below including technical analysis of the bourse.
The Nikkei 225 put on another solid day again, up 1.4% – all because of Yen weakness – breaking out of its sideways rangebound trade soon?
Chinese markets remain in a funk, with the Hang Seng going nowhere, while the Shanghai Composite is dicing again with support at 2000 points.
The Aussie dollar is up slightly on the risk-on move again, bouncing off its own 200 day moving average and retaining its sideways bullish bias:
As I said on Friday, the US dollar looks like running out of puff, in the US Dollar Index at least, and gold is slightly rangebound between $1700 and $1740USD per ounce:
Australian Stocks
The biggest winner today was energies – namely the big players Origin Energy (ORG) and Santos (STO), both up 4% or so after being oversold recently:
Is this just a short term exhaustive rebound or start of something new?
As for the market itself, it has approached the closely watched 200 day moving average, where I said on Friday that “a cross of that is required before a full blown correction – down to 4000 or so points – can be called” – for now, crisis averted:
As always, watch the European and US close tomorrow morning and read Macro Investor Technicals to get the bigger picture, and have nice day.
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