The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is down 59 points today (15 September), to 8,805.90 points, representing a 0.67% decrease as at 10.25am AEST.
The index has lost 0.74% over the past five days and is 2.75% off its 52-week high.
Sectors are holding a mixed session with six performing higher, not including the materials sector, which has dropped 0.10%.
Asian markets are expected to open lower this morning in line with the ASX.
The Dow Jones dropped 0.6% to finish the trading day down 274 points to close at 45,834 points.
Earlier, markets in Europe had weaker sessions as both London’s FTSE and Germany’s DAX declined.
The Australian dollar has been buying slightly higher, currently at US$0.66.
Gold is trading at US$3,639 ($5,475) per ounce with copper trading at US$4.58 per pound.
WTI Crude oil is selling for US$62.78 per barrel while Brent oil is higher at US$67.04 per barrel.
Iron ore is valued at US$105.43 per ton.
The S&P/ASX200 is Australia’s leading share market index and contains the top 200 ASX-listed companies in terms of market capitalisation, and accounts for about 80% of the country’s equity market.
The index is designed to measure the performance of the 200 largest index-eligible stocks listed on the ASX by float-adjusted market capitalisation.
It is recognised as the institutional investable benchmark in the country.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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