Here are the top ASX large cap movers for Thursday
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There was broad based selloff across ASX blue chips today, with all 11 sectors falling into the red.
The benchmark ASX 200 index ended up lower by 1.9% as it sank further from the mid session loss of 1%.
It was one of the biggest drops for the ASX this year, matching its one-day loss of 1.9% in February.
The downward move today followed action on Wall Street overnight, where the US stock markets fell on concerns about the soft US jobs data and coronavirus spread around the world.
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Code | Name | Price | % Change | Volume | Market Cap |
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ASM | Ausstratmaterials | 11.43 | -8.4% | 724,845 | $1,741,034,955 |
VUK | Virgin Money Uk PLC | 3.59 | -8.2% | 5,977,822 | $3,431,998,015 |
LTR | Liontown Resources | 1.06 | -7.8% | 12,380,777 | $2,193,074,341 |
CTT | Cettire | 3.36 | -7.7% | 1,305,865 | $1,387,707,121 |
ERA | Energy Resources | 0.31 | -7.5% | 348,326 | $1,236,613,371 |
ORE | Orocobre Limited | 8.88 | -6.5% | 3,105,148 | $6,051,065,793 |
IMU | Imugene Limited | 0.385 | -6.1% | 17,915,719 | $2,188,518,578 |
PLS | Pilbara Min Ltd | 2.04 | -6.0% | 33,177,731 | $6,369,904,815 |
OBL | Omni Bridgeway Ltd | 3.97 | -5.9% | 2,394,626 | $1,118,219,166 |
EML | EML Payments Ltd | 3.81 | -5.5% | 3,940,716 | $1,461,764,107 |
INR | Ioneer Ltd | 0.625 | -5.3% | 16,194,249 | $1,256,769,955 |
MP1 | Megaport Limited | 16.35 | -5.1% | 463,664 | $2,701,205,829 |
ASX resources and commodities plays were weighed down by softer commodities prices overnight, where iron price fell by 3.5% on China’s demand concerns.
Giant miners like Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) and BHP (ASX:BHP) both fell by around 2%.
The big banks were also being sold off by investors, with the Big Four trading lower by around 2%.
The Tech sector went deep in the red and lost almost 3%, with broad selling across major names.
Xero (ASX:XRO) was the hardest hit tech stock, down by 4% with Afterpay (ASX:APT) also dragging the index down and falling by 3%.
In the Communications sector, REA Group (ASX:REA) fell by 3% while Telstra (ASX:TLS) fell by 2.4% – both on no news.
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Code | Name | Price | % Change | Volume | Market Cap |
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CEN | Contact Energy Ltd | 7.77 | 0.52% | 26 | $1,879,825,855 |
HSN | Hansen Technologies | 5.58 | 0.54% | 1,036,221 | $1,112,879,379 |
TPW | Temple & Webster Ltd | 12.78 | 0.55% | 619,218 | $1,530,956,715 |
BKI | BKI Investment Ltd | 1.66 | 0.61% | 619,551 | $1,222,247,385 |
WHC | Whitehaven Coal | 2.92 | 0.69% | 8,635,612 | $2,994,668,273 |
IFT | Infratil Limited | 7.18 | 0.70% | 15,114 | $5,163,141,914 |
SNZ | Summerset Grp Hldgs | 14.65 | 0.76% | 987 | $3,338,483,933 |
PPK | PPK Group Limited | 20.12 | 0.85% | 503,982 | $1,781,321,395 |
HGH | Heartland Group | 2.28 | 0.89% | 112 | $1,324,143,865 |
LIC | Lifestyle Communit. | 21.51 | 1.22% | 485,979 | $2,221,584,034 |
NVX | Novonix Limited | 5.53 | 1.84% | 11,164,293 | $2,196,985,515 |
RMD | ResMed Inc. | 40.31 | 1.87% | 1,567,668 | $16,117,263,031 |
AX1 | Accent Group Ltd | 2.16 | 1.89% | 2,368,146 | $1,148,757,436 |
MGH | Maas Group Holdings | 5.37 | 2.29% | 356,759 | $1,450,047,086 |
VUL | Vulcan Energy | 14.73 | 2.65% | 1,976,795 | $1,561,156,073 |
Stocks that rose today include Novonix (ASX:NVX) (not in the ASX 200), which climbed 3%. The NVZ stock price has been rising by 12% this week after being admitted into the ASX 300 index.
Resmed (ASX:RMD) was up 3% on no news. Last Friday, Resmed was included in the ASX 50 index as part of the quarterly rebalance which will take effect on September 20.