Sean Aylmer

Those two companies are up more than 8% in the past week.

Consumer discretionary stocks also did well yesterday, as did the property companies.

CSL?

One of those companies that really has had a shocking time of it recently.

Well, it's benefited from this whole shift to defensive positioning.

It's up more than 10% over the past week.

Yesterday was better for the big banks.

The big miners were mixed by the close.

The S&P ASX 200 was trading, well, heading towards 8,650 points.

That's right.

So the US dollar is stronger and that's hurt the local unit.

But the Aussie is also lower against a bunch of other countries.

That story is mostly about weaker commodity prices.

So in recent sessions, the Aussie is down against the euro, against the Chinese yuan.

I wonder who's going to China soon and interested in that one.

And it's not you.

The New Zealand dollar depreciated against the US dollar.

The New Zealand dollar, the Japanese yen, the British pound.

Cryptocurrencies remain under pressure.

Bitcoin's worth about 61,000 US dollars a token.