Sean Aylmer

Yes.

I mean, it started lower and then rose all day and right at the last, jumped pretty sharply.

It was a day for defensive stocks, though.

In fact, it's been a week for defensive stocks.

Woolies and Coles were both up again yesterday.

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.