Pre-Market Report

Wall Street ended lower overnight after US GDP numbers showed a sharp decline and Meta results (-10.6%) triggered a tech sell-off. The Dow lost 375 points (-0.98%), S&P 500 -0.46% and the NASDAQ -0.64%. Microsoft and Alphabet are up 4.38% and 11.65% in after-hours trading on solid results. Alphabet has beat sales estimates and announcing its first-ever dividend. The NASDAQ…

Resmed Results Wake Investors Up

Resmed (RMD) results – Is trading up 11% afterhours in the US and up 6.7% on the ASX as results beat consensus expectations by 9%. Brokers said at the start of the week that focus for the results will be on sales growth, margins and commentary on the impact weight loss drugs have been having…

Trading Section

SUMMARY Mixed bag for results season so far. Sold SNAS on Wednesday for a 5% profit. Looking for the next round of Ideas but not going to stick our necks out ahead of inflation numbers tonight. Oil, gold, bond yields up. All bearish signs so staying in cash in the MQG One Stock Portfolio. No…

Trading Tutorial

For the benefit of new members this is a repost of recent trading tutorials. Offering an explanation of the terms and phrases used in the trading section. This section will be posted under "education" and updated with new insights over time. The two primary indicators used in our trading section are relative strength index (RSI) and moving averages (MA). The RSI is…

Marcus Take Friday

SUMMARY – A lot going on. Glad we’re not holding BHP as it makes a huge bid. Talk of three rates rises from the RBA after that CPI number. Big Australia bends. Big US Tech holds. The PCE Price index number tonight could just be the number that breaks the bond market’s back. Newmont paves…

End of Day Report

The ASX200 has finished the week down 107 points (-1.4%) to 7576. Rate sensitive Real Estate and Industrials were the worst performers ahead of the US PCE inflation data tonight and talk in the newswires of three rate rises now in Australia before the year is out. TCL was hit 3.6%, GMG down 1.8% and…