Monday, October 19, 2009

Update - 19/10/09

As expected, today was down. XAO -0.8%

Some risk aversion was evident with the defensive stocks among the best performers.

Consumer Staples, +1.0%
Telecommunications, +0.3%
Utilities, -0.1%
Health, -0.6%

But the breadth picture wasn't particularly gloomy.

Amongst the 50 Leaders newhighs/newlows, the split was even 2/2.

Advance/Decline Ratio was 0.87
AdvVol/DeclVol was 1.16

Small Ordinaries: 0.8%
Fifty Leaders: 0.9%

Nothing much in those breadth figures - but a slight bias to the up side.

As I said in the Weekend posts, the market is fragile - but not broken.

I'd expect a flat to up day tomorrow.

While the Ozzie Dollar stays strong - there's not much chance our market will fall in a heap.

At the time of posting, the Ozzie was back above 92 cents - so it is still looking strong - and positive for our market.

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