read-signs — Daily S&P/ASX 200 signals from the ASX

BHP hit a record closing price of $64.91 on Wednesday, and the explanation that circulated — soft GDP data pushed rate hold odds to 93% —…

Wesfarmers fell 0.8% and JB Hi-Fi dropped 5.4% on the same day Australia's Fair Work Commission handed three million workers a 4.75% pay…

Lynas Rare Earths and Arafura are pricing a structural shift, not a trade cycle bounce — and the gap between those two readings is now the…

The ASX 200 closed up 1.62% on Friday, but the event that produced that gain has not yet legally happened. Reports emerged that the US and…

Gold bullion fell to a two-month low on Thursday even as fresh US strikes on Iran sent oil above US$117 a barrel and reports emerged of…

Australia's April CPI landed at 4.2% — softer than the 4.6% March reading and below the 4.4% consensus. The immediate market read was…

Australia's economy expanded by 0.3 per cent in the March quarter — but the number that demands attention is not the headline figure. It is…

Gold has risen thirty-two percent over the past twelve months. That is one of the strongest sustained commodity runs in a generation,…

Three years ago, PwC Australia lost its government consulting franchise after a partner leaked confidential Treasury tax reform advice to…

A Supreme Court judgement landed this morning and Dexus shares went straight to a trading halt at $5.93. That is not the number to watch.…

CSL closed Thursday at $97.81. That price matters not because of where it sits today, but because of what it cost the company's own…

The ASX 200 finished Wednesday up 0.69 per cent, but the session's dominant signal was split. Headline CPI for April came in at 4.2 per…

A Perth-based company most Australians had never heard of just moved 471% in a single trading session. DXN, listed on the ASX, announced on…

On the first of June 2026, BHP shares closed at $61.52 after touching an intraday record of $62.30. That same day, the ASX 200 finished…

Let us start with what actually happened, because the sequence matters here.

Charter Hall just upgraded its earnings guidance for the third time in a single financial year.

The consensus view coming into 2026 was that iron ore would fall to US$80 or US$90 per tonne. That was not a fringe view. It was the…

Codan has two businesses that tell completely different stories about what kind of company it is. The Minelab division makes metal…