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AU Morning Wrap: ASX plunges after Wall St rout; Macquarie profit jumps to $4.7b

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Moomoo News AU wrote a column · May 6, 2022 08:11
G'day, mooers! Check out the latest news on today's stock market!
• Rates rethink triggerred US bloodbath
• Australian shares plunged on Friday; ASX 200 dropped 2 per cent
• Stocks to watch: News Corp, Macquarie, Block
- moomoo News AU
AU Morning Wrap: ASX plunges after Wall St rout; Macquarie profit jumps to $4.7b
Wall Street Summary
US stocks erased all of their gains from Wednesday night as investors reassessed the Federal Reserve's decision to raise its benchmark rate by 50 basis points.

The $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ tumbled 1,063 points or 3.12 per cent to its heaviest loss since October 2020. The $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ shed 153 points or 3.56 per cent. The $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ gave up 647 points or 4.99 per cent.

AU Market Watch
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 looks poised to dive at the open, resuming its downward trajectory after US stocks posted their largest falls of 2022. ASX futures are down by 1.5%, suggesting yesterday's 0.8% rise was a blip in an otherwise red week. The ASX 200 is nearly 1% lower so far in a week that has featured interest-rate rises in Australia and the US. It is on course for a third straight weekly decline.

Australian shares opened lower this morning. The $S&P/ASX 200 (.XJO.AU)$ lost 2 per cent to 7219 as of 10:12 am.
Stocks to Watch
$News Corp (NWS.AU)$: News Corp third quarter revenues rose to 7 per cent to a record $US2.49 billion compared with the previous year and net income of $US104 million, 8 per cent higher year-on-year, thanks to a rebound in advertising, new content, licensing revenues and strong digital subscriber gains.

$Macquarie Group Ltd (MQG.AU)$: Macquarie Group full-year profit rose 56 per cent to $4.7 billion, and for the second-half rose 31 per cent to $2.7 billion year-on-year.

$Block Inc (SQ2.AU)$: Block Inc, the fintech firm led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, missed market estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday (Friday AEST) as demand for bitcoin softened due to a decline in cryptocurrency prices.

Dividends Paid Companies: $Perpetual Credit Income Trust (PCI.AU)$, $Spheria Emerging Co Ltd (SEC.AU)$, $Seven Group Holdings Ltd (SVW.AU)$

Commodities
• Iron ore futures rose 1.7% to US$145.2 a tonne.
• Oil was green but well-off session highs of US$111.3 a barrel. EU outlined its plans on phasing out Russian oil and the latest EIA report flagged historically low strategic petroleum reserves.
• Gold briefly spiked 1.5% to session highs of US$1,909 before fading back to the US$1,870 level.

Source: Dow Jones Newswires, Market Index
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