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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
A listener production. The unusually flat run for the Aussie market continues as tech and resource stocks lift.
And what's happening with commodity prices as the conflict escalates.
Good afternoon, I'm Steve Daglin.
I'm Maura Vessarati.
It's Tuesday the 21st of July.
Why has the Aussie share market been unusually flat for five of the last seven days?
Welcome to the CompSec Market Update.
Stevie, there's not much been going on on the Aussie market once again today. Now, I should highlight that we did briefly tip into positive territory. So at our best levels of the day, we're up by around a tenth of 1%, but we're pretty much completely flat. as we head into the close. At our worst levels, though, we were down by around 0.7%, which looked like it was going to be a one-week low for the Aussie market, but we did recover from those lower levels. And I think things are just continuing to be quite subdued with investors kind of waiting on the sidelines ahead of some key things happening later this week and also waiting to kind of see what's going on in the Middle East and if things could potentially repair themselves or if a peace talk is potentially on the table.
Yeah. So five flat finishes in seven days basically for the Aussie share market, which is crazy to think, very unusual as far as what we typically would see on a market and the amount of money flowing through the market has still been relatively light as well. I think what you highlight there is bang on. And of course, we've seen some big movements though in certain areas of the share market. I mean, oil, for example, up around 1%. and up around 22% higher over the course of the month as well. The US, of course, launched more strikes on Iran in the past day. This was just hours after President Trump warned that Iran will pay for killing three American soldiers. And I think this news has just overshadowed some attempts to bring about a pause in the war, but certainly this is going to likely continue to be a driving factor of markets.
And there are a including earnings in Australia and the US. And I think both of those will be important too.
Exactly right. So we have seen oil prices getting towards five-week highs. They have edged slightly lower in today's session. As I mentioned at the outset, there are some hopes of peace negotiations between the US and Iran, even though we've seen several days where these tensions are escalating and the attacks just keep on going. But we did see in some reports that Iran said mediators were in touch with proposals on how to ease hostility. So that's why we have seen oil prices come down just a little bit today from those five-week lows. We should mention gold prices because they've been moving in the opposite direction, up by around 1.5% today. But keep in mind, gold prices do remain close to their lowest level in about nine months.
Yeah. And the tech sector has certainly been a big standard on the market today. It's up in the order of 3.3%, which is, you don't see that very often, easily the best performer of the bunch, but it still is down about 18% since the start of this year. So it has certainly been one of the losers and it did also fall about one and a half percent just on Monday. So reversing those declines and then adding some improvements to that as well.
Absolutely. So the tech sector, the big standout for today. The materials sector also up by around 1.3%, which is helping to offset some of the losses we're seeing elsewhere. So it is worth mentioning, yes, with gold prices up, we have seen gold miners lifting as well. So they're up by around 3.6% as a group. Pretty modest moves everywhere else in terms of those sectors that are lifting, but financials are quite a weight, down by 0.7%. We are seeing all of the major banks easing and healthcare is down by roughly 1%, which certainly isn't helpful.
Yeah, we are seeing some improvements coming through from certain areas outside of what you just mentioned as well. BHP, for example, which has had a bit of a rough ride recently, is up around 1.3%. It did fall about 5% in the tail end of last week, but it certainly is doing a little better in stark contrast to the likes of Fortescue Metals, which is down quite heavily today.
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