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SPI200 Futures Expected to open up 22 Points

OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 22 points.

The Dow had previously topped that mark in intraday trading last month and again Monday, but it fell back below the record before markets closed.

Treasury yields extended their fall amid reports that the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank could appoint potentially dovish members to key positions.

Overnight Summary

Each Market In Focus

Australian Market

Australian shares overcame a weak start to the session to outperform most markets in the region, buoyed largely by yield plays like utilities and property trusts. Up for a third straight session, the S&P/ASX 200 settled 0.5% higher at 6685.5.

Energy stocks were the biggest drag, dropping 2.2% as a sector, while the healthcare subindex eased slightly. The utilities and property trusts each added 1.9%, and industrials were up 1.3%. Woolworths helped lift the consumer stocks, climbing 2.7% on news it will merge its drinks and bars businesses and seek to spin them off.

US Markets

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record, its first new high in nine months, as the index notched its fourth straight session of gains.

The Dow industrials climbed more than 170 points during a shortened trading session ahead of Thursday’s Independence Day holiday, putting it above its previous October milestone. The Dow was the last of the three major indexes to notch a record this year, as trade tensions, concerns of slowing economic growth and problems among individual
companies such as Boeing and 3M weighed on its performance in recent months.

Last weekend’s trade truce spurred the latest leg of the Dow’s recovery after the U.S. and China reached a pact that eased investors’ fears of an all-out trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. But the cease-fire only put additional tariffs on hold indefinitely, leaving investors concerned that lingering frictions could give way to
another flare-up in trade tensions and market volatility.

Eyes are now turned to the Federal Reserve and whether it will cut interest rates this year-a move that would support further stock gains, analysts said.

On Wednesday, shares of McDonald’s led the Dow industrials higher, followed by Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, helping lift the index 179.32 points, or 0.7%, to 26966.

That tops its previous record of 26828.39, set Oct. 3.

The Dow had previously topped that mark in intraday trading last month and again Monday, but it fell back below the record before markets closed. Altogether, the Dow took 188 trading sessions to reach its latest record, its longest drought since the 290-session stretch from May 2015 through July 2016.

The S&P 500 added 22.81 points, or 0.8%, to 2995.82, notching its eighth milestone of the year, while the Nasdaq rose 61.14 points, or 0.8%, to 8170.23, its fifth record this year.

Shares of Symantec led the S&P 500 higher, gaining $3, or 14%, to $25.10, its biggest gain in nearly 18 years, after reports it had drawn takeover interest from Broadcom, which declined $10.44, or 3.5%, to $284.89. Real-estate and consumer-staple stocks, meanwhile, notched the biggest gains, rising 1.5% and 1.4%, respectively, while shares of
utilities added 0.8%.

Tesla rose $10.35, or 4.6%, to $234.90 after the car maker said Tuesday it had delivered a record 95,200 vehicles in its latest quarter. Its shares remain down 29% for the year.

Oil Futures

Oil futures ended higher after posting a roughly two-week low a day earlier, as U.S. government data showed domestic crude supplies fell a third straight week, but by a lot less than the market expected.

August West Texas Intermediate crude CLQ19, +2.03% climbed by $1.09, or 1.9%, to settle at $57.34 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, near the session’s high of $57.44. Regular trading on the exchange will be shut for the Independence Day holiday on
Thursday.

Meanwhile, international benchmark September Brent BRNU19, +0.20% added $1.42, or 2.3%, to finish at $63.82 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. With the U.S. on holiday, oil trading on the exchange will close early, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, on Thursday.

Forex

The U.S. dollar rose modestly in mixed trading as investors look forward to widespread easy-money policies from global central banks. Investors are betting on rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and from the European Central Bank.

The U.S. Dollar Index rose 0.06% to 96.79.

European Markets

The German 10-year government bond yield slid 2 basis points to negative 0.39%, pushing deeper into negative territory. Meanwhile, the Italian 10-year government bond yield plummeted 26 basis points to 1.60%.

European rates fell after the International Monetary Fund’s head Christine Lagarde was nominated by European leaders to succeed Mario Draghi as the next president of the European Central Bank. Her lack of a monetary policy background has left some market participants unsure of her leanings but many investors say she is expected to continue Draghi’s loose policies.

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