Material Losses
After Tuesday’s strong blue chip-led rally for the ASX200, the futures showed down -12 yesterday morning which was unsurprising, but it was not to be. From the open, the index made another assault on the 7400 level.
At midday the index was up 25 points and just a tad over 7400 but then in came the sellers, with some no doubt deciding the impending Fed meeting was sufficient reason to take profits.
In the wash-up, the final score was materials versus the rest. Big falls in copper, nickel and gold had materials down -1.6%, which translated into a -6.7% drop for copper miner OZ Minerals ((OZL)) and -1.7% for copper miner BHP Group ((BHP)), along with -4.8% for Nickel Mines (NIC)) and -1.3% for Newcrest Mining ((NCM)), to name a few.