Wren Advisers Daily Update
Summary: Friday 18-September-2026
Australia Value Chg
S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index 8,922.9 12.0
S&P/ASX 200 Index 8,731.2 -1.2
ASX Volume (million) 6,832.650 3,876.130
ASX Advances 1,106 ---
ASX Declines 643 ---
ASX Value ($ million) 22,636.900 11,427.700
RBA cash rate (%) 4.35 0.00
90 day bank bill rate (%)     ---     ---
10 year Treasury bond yield (%) 5.26 -0.04
AUD/USD 0.7126 0.0018
AUD/TWI 66.0 0.2
USD/JPY 157.20 1.49
EUR/USD 1.1479 0.0013
Asia Value Chg
Nikkei 225 Index 64,011.34 -124.91
Hang Seng Index 24,750.78 146.49
Europe Value Chg
FTSE 100 Index 10,650.44 -165.70
DAX Index 25,304.10 -412.60
North America Value Chg
Dow Jones Industrial Average 52,573.29 795.25
NYSE Volume (million) 4,330.930 3,094.650
NYSE Advances 923 ---
NYSE Declines 1,828 ---
NASDAQ Composite Index 26,333.04 -85.26
NASDAQ Volume (million) 13,287.000 3,402.110
NASDAQ Advances 2,081 ---
NASDAQ Declines 2,834 ---
US 3 month Treasury bill rate (%) 4.08 0.02
US 10 year Treasury bond yield (%) 5.00 0.06
Commodities Value Chg
London PM gold price (US$/oz)     ---     ---
WTI crude oil price (US$/bbl) 99.99 -1.10
Market News
Australian share market opens higher after gains overnight on Wall Street but then loses momentum. Gold stocks outperform with Southern Cross Gold (SX2) +7.5%, Ora Banda Mining (OBM) +7.4% and Pantoro Gold (PNR) +6.1%.

S&P/ASX 200 Intraday

Maas Group Holdings (MGH) surges 9.0% after receiving Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approval to sell its construction materials business to pre-mixed concrete supplier Heidelberg Materials Australia.

Abacus Group (ABG) sheds 1.2% after agreeing to sell a 19.6% stake in Storage King Group (SKG) for total gross proceeds of $284.8 million. This equates to an average price of $1.11 per security. SKG drops 1.9% to $1.055.

Forrestania Resources (FRS) sinks 2.8% despite saying that a pre-feasibility study has demonstrated a near-term high grade gold production opportunity at Johnson Range which is located near its Edna May processing hub.

S&P/ASX Sector Indices (% change)

Arafura Rare Earths (ARU) jumps 11.8% after signing an extension of its existing offtake agreement with a company operating in the renewable energy sector which is involved in the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of wind turbines.

Macmahon Holdings (MAH) surges 8.6% after agreeing to buy Aspect Engineering Solutions for an upfront cash payment of $30 million, a yearly retention payment of $6 million per year for the next five years and earn-out payments of between $15 million and $30 million subject to performance hurdles.

Harvey Norman (HVN) drops 1.7% after being downgraded from equal weight to underweight by Morgan Stanley. Wesfarmers (WES) adds 0.2% after being raised from underweight to equal-weight by the same broker.

S&P/ASX Market Moving Stocks



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