Santos Ltd (ASX:STO) is one of Australia’s largest oil and gas companies. Founded in the 1950’s, Santos owns and operates one of Australia’s largest portfolios of oil and gas fields, connected by extensive pipelines and complementary facilities.
Here’s today’s The Match Out report from Market Matters’ James Gerrish. Key point: the S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) finished up +0.51% to 6925.50.
The Australia share market retreated to a six-month low on Tuesday, as global markets felt the pressure from surging bond yields – despite, in Australia’s case, the Reserve Bank leaving the official cash rate on hold at 4.1 per cent, for a fifth straight month.
It was relatively quiet on the ASX on Monday with traders eyeing the Reserve Bank of Australia’s latest interest-rate decision, to be announced today (and a public holiday in most states dampening activity further).
The local share market fell for a second straight day on Tuesday, ahead of a flurry of central bank meetings, and following the release of a set of minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia that were taken as implying that the local central bank is considered raising rates.
Here’s today’s The Match Out report from Market Matters’ James Gerrish. Key point: the S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) finished down -0.47% to 7196.60.
A tech slide dragged the ASX indices lower on Wednesday, ahead of the US inflation data coming in overnight.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 (INDEXASX: XJO) index managed to finish 14.6 points, or 0.2%, higher at 7206.9, with the broader All Ordinaries (INDEXASX: XAO) index tracking that rise in percentage terms, adding 15.1 points to 7402.9.
The local share market weakened again on Wednesday, with the All Ordinaries (INDEXASX: XAO) down 0.7% and the S&P/ASX 200 (ASX: XJO) falling 0.8% as seven sectors fell by more than 1%.
The S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) ended mostly flat on Friday. Here’s some of the key points you missed from ASX 200 trading this week.
