News for Whispir Limited (WSP.AX)

Here's today's latest updates on the S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) and the broader All Ordinaries (INDEXASX: XAO) share prices.

The ASX200 closed down 0.9 per cent despite the Reserve Bank's decision to keep interest rates on hold at its final meeting of 2023.

Interest rates have been kept on hold at 4.35 per cent until February. After the news, the ASX200 rallied slightly but still ended the day down about .9 per cent.

The S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) closed 19.2 points, or 0.3%, higher at 6,997 and the broader All Ordinaries (INDEXASX: XAO) index was 0.2% higher, up 17.2 points at 7,192.3.

The ASX200 spent the day hovering above and below the 7,000 level, eventually finishing just under it, while the Australian dollar hit a three-month high.

Here’s today’s The Match Out report from Market Matters’ James Gerrish. Key point: the S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) finished up +0.28% to 6997.40.

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At the end of a crazy week, it's the goldies out in front again, more than 3.0% better than the ASX benchmark's -1.09% fizzer.

On Stockhead Monday, nickel M&A action is in the post. We've got 20 companies, many ASX-listed players, that make handy takeover targets.

The Nasdaq 100 index, a bellwether for global tech stocks, quietly entered into a technical bull market last week.

The cheapest profitable tech stock is the strife-prone EML Payments, which is trading on a 23-24 multiple of a mere 2.6 times.

The Emerging Companies index managed to lift slightly this week to 0.61% but all sectors finished in the red.

The ASX 200 opened with a 0.2% dip this morning, struggled like a fighter in a poorly-applied arm bar and then sagged again to be -0.3%.

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The benchmark ASX200 has ended a really awful day of trade by snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory Goldfields, which jumped about 45%.

The ASX 200 has wobbled to a 0.35% loss this morning, a couple of Small Cap techies have gone boom, plus there's monkeys! Wooo!

S&P/ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index was up by 0.4% on Friday, but down 1% for the five sessions to, 2.30pm today in Sydney.

Global share markets and the ASX were mostly up in October in a positive sign of recovery for what has been a volatile 2022.

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