Australia | May 06 2013
By Ashley Jessen, director of LearnCFDs.com and author of CFDs Made Simple
Non-farm Payroll data fuelled price action on Friday’s US trading session to provide the impetus for our early market action to hit new recent highs but the 5200 mark was quickly rejected, pushing the S&P/ASX 200 down to 5156.2, although for the day we were up 26.70 points or 0.52% with volume coming in weaker than normal at $3.5 billion.
The employment read in the US saw 165,000 jobs created from an expectation of 145,000 which helped the Dow Jones rise 142 points. Locally a raft of economic news came out with retail sales coming in weaker than expected, TD Securities inflation gauge rose by 0.3% and the ANZ jobs ads survey has indicated advertisements have declined by 1.3% month on month.
The Basic Materials sector rose an impressive 2.93% on a fairly mixed day overall with Oil & Gas the next best placed, rising 1.76%. Despite having several days at topping the best sector of the day, Telecommunication stocks fell 0.54% with Consumer Goods the next of the biggest losers, falling 0.22%.
Looking over the charts
Narrow ranges have defined the local market for the last week indicating indecision at the top of the most recent uptrend but the overriding visible pattern is that the highs continue to get higher, albeit only just. Technically we can only suggest this consolidation is as a result of the majority of the bulls having entered the market and the rest waiting for a pullback that seems destined not to occur. We can draw this conclusion by the fact that very little profit taking is taking place despite the market being at new recent highs.
S&P/ASX 200 Gainers and Losers
Mirabela Nickel ((MBN))had an outstanding day today on incredibly surging volume, pushing the share price up 50% without any significant news hitting the market, although the company did make a presentation last Friday which may have increased awareness about their future prospects. Karoon Gas ((KAR)) jumped an equally impressive 22.56% after several months of rapid declines that would lead any investor with a head spin, although they did announce they had struck oil in Brazil.
St Barbara ((SBM)) fell 5.98% capping off an increasingly falling share price and managing to hit new recent lows not seen since June 2005, with the price depreciating 77% since October last year. Drillsearch Energy ((DLS)) meandered around, falling 4.04% whilst it is stuck in a steadily declining price channel with support approaching around the $1.00 mark.
(For a more comprehensive summary of last night’s market action see FNArena’s Overnight Report.)
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