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SUMMARY BHP falls 1.1% on results with more expected today. Glad we’re in cash. MQG down 0.5% yesterday vs the market near flat. Staying in cash. IVV prints a daily sell signal while IHVV prints a weekly sell signal. Froth coming off. PME recovers strongly from the post-results selloff. SHL falls into oversold territory. ANZ…

Marcus Take Wednesday – Big Tech drops its pants – Resources on the nose

Big Tech drops its pants ahead of Nvidia results tonight. Some early (daily) sell signals on US ETFs – IVV and NDQ. Lithium stocks trashed again overnight. Chinese rate cut upsetting Chinese economic confidence. Iron ore down 5.1%. BHP and RIO down 3.7% and 4.6% in the US overnight. Stocks we hold with results today – RIO, NAB (Qly update), WOW, STC, SIQ. Other Results today – STO, DMP, CTD. Stocks we hold – Today we look at BHP, SHL and MMS after yesterday’s results. CBA ex-dividend 215c FF today.

BHP Half Year Results

BHP after the results yesterday got an unremarkable write-up from brokers. Take out the provisioning and the results were solid enough. Key points: Reported profit down from US$6.6 billion to US$927m thanks to $5.7 billion worth of charges and impairments against Samarco (US$3.2bn) and the nickel business (US$2.5bn). For those not up to date, the…

COH Half Year Results

Cochlear’s (COH) results on Monday saw the share price fall 2% before recovering 3.5% yesterday and today to hit a fresh all-time high. Now up 17% since upgrading earnings guidance two weeks ago. We hold it in the growth portfolio. Prices are lofty but when adjusted for new earnings the stock valuation isn’t massively overpriced.…