By Chris Becker
A scratch day for the ASX200 but also most other markets in Asia – except Japan. Check out a full roundup by sector including some the top 8 stocks and some technical analysis below.
The Nikkei 225 had a very good day as the Yen weakened appreciably against the dollar – not what you expect after QE4 or 5 or QEWTF:
The Shanghai Comp has slipped again, the Hang Seng – the main risk proxy to watch – has not moved.
The Aussie dollar looks set to reach 1.06 on USD weakness – time to short soon perhaps given it hasn’t breached this level in quite some time:
The US Dollar Index is now below the 80 point key level – maybe QEInfinity will work?
Not according to the gold bugs – the shiny metal is just above its 200 day moving average with a lot of resistance overhead:
Australian Stocks
Interesting rotations in the sectors today. Staples were sold, discretionary bid on Xmas cheer, financials steady, materials rallying once more, with the top ASX8 stock (top 4 miners and 4 banks) Rio Tinto (RIO) up nearly 1%:
With materials heading to the moon, why isnt the ASX200 building momentum from here? Its the overvalued, overbought, overprotected banks is what…
I can feel a small retracement coming on in the next few days. What makes this feeling worse is I’m going on holidays soon – and markets always fall or exploded to the upside when that happens…so watch out.
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