Here are the top ASX large cap movers for Thursday

After trading higher by half a percent for most of the day, the benchmark ASX 200 ended up just 0.07% higher, taking its weekly gain to 0.70%.

Properties and miners were the major winners, while travel stocks dragged the index down.

The local bourse was boosted by the latest payroll numbers, which showed an increase of 0.2% in the fortnight to September 25th.

Today’s report released by the ABS comes a day after the National Skills Commission reported that skilled job vacancies rose nationally by 4.9% in September.

“But uncertainties remain, including about how the nature of the virus could change over time, and so the risks to Australia and the global economy remain heightened,” Secretary to the Treasury, Dr Steven Kennedy told 7News.

Those uncertainties brought down the travel sector today, with stocks like Flight Centre (ASX:FLT) and Webjet (ASX:WEB) down between 3-5%.

Embattled casino group, Crown Resorts (ASX:CWN) was down 0.32%, and faced the music from angry shareholders who gave the Board a second strike at today’s AGM.

Crown shareholders were fumed after learning that sacked executives were given multimillion dollar golden handhsakes, but chairman Jane Halton defended the payments saying they were legitimate.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin has retreated to US$64,500, after surging to as high as US$67k overnight.

Earlier, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent the crypto market into a mini frenzy with his mysterious tweet (open to your own interpretation):

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— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 19, 2021

BIG CAP WINNERS

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume	Market Cap
PPT	Perpetual Limited	40.38	7.8%	470,396	$2,121,563,957
CIM	Cimic Group Ltd	21.88	5.9%	996,952	$6,434,494,232
HLS	Healius	4.75	4.4%	3,968,260	$2,835,366,907
NIC	Nickel Mines Limited	1.095	4.3%	16,844,271	$2,640,780,504
PEB	Pacific Edge	1.4	4.1%	49,963	$1,064,763,975
AMP	AMP Limited	1.165	4.0%	16,830,376	$3,658,038,555
SCG	Scentre Grp	3.11	3.3%	14,490,047	$15,623,038,800
ALL	Aristocrat Leisure	47.1	3.3%	3,692,367	$29,121,980,882
PNI	Pinnacle Investment	16.6	2.9%	920,819	$3,111,811,939
IMD	Imdex Limited	2.84	2.9%	1,232,852	$1,094,208,624
CWY	Cleanaway Waste Ltd	2.85	2.9%	17,105,885	$5,710,712,657
ORA	Orora Limited	3.23	2.9%	3,084,040	$2,750,720,959
NEA	Nearmap Ltd	2.21	2.8%	2,839,903	$1,070,251,656
MEZ	Meridian Energy	4.83	2.8%	145,247	$5,927,129,834
ALU	Altium Limited	37.15	2.7%	449,524	$4,756,551,025
XRO	Xero Ltd	150.05	2.6%	417,263	$21,723,296,752

Funds group Perpetual (ASX:PPT) soared 8% after announcing an increase to its assets under management (AUM) to $101 billion as at 30 September.

It was an increase of 2.7% from the previous period, with inflows seen in both its Australian and international asset management businesses.

Healthcare company Healius (ASX:HLS) was up nearly 5 % after reporting a 44% growth in its group revenue to $689.9m for Q1.

The strong earnings growth were underpinned by elevated COVID testing revenue, as well as cost control restructuring.

“Looking to the remainder of FY22, we believe COVID PCR testing will be part of the health landscape for years, however, we expect that testing levels will fluctuate,” said Healius CEO, Dr Malcolm Parmenter.

Aristocrat Leisure (ASX:ALL) rose 3% to $47.14, after securing $895 million from institutional investors at the offer price of $41.85

The company is raising funds to support the $3.9 billion takeover of Playtech announced earlier this week.

BIG CAP LOSERS

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume	Market Cap
ABB	Aussie Broadband	4.68	-6.4%	1,787,499	$1,119,159,755
FLT	Flight Centre Travel	20.39	-5.8%	8,736,597	$4,320,196,122
OML	Ooh!Media Limited	1.875	-5.1%	2,305,371	$1,182,325,599
ERA	Energy Resources	0.42	-4.5%	545,658	$1,624,208,607
SUL	Super Ret Rep Ltd	12.65	-4.4%	1,185,625	$2,987,684,595
YAL	Yancoal Aust Ltd	3.35	-3.7%	237,216	$4,595,129,241
A2M	The A2 Milk Company	7.13	-3.5%	6,006,899	$5,495,295,828
29M	29Metalslimited	2.65	-3.3%	1,991,269	$1,316,446,700
CDA	Codan Limited	12.9	-3.2%	1,054,629	$2,411,182,854
AEF	Australian Ethical	12.28	-3.2%	186,429	$1,425,068,910
SZL	Sezzle Inc.	5.97	-3.1%	175,806	$1,220,373,887
WEB	Webjet Limited	6.31	-3.1%	5,567,806	$2,477,118,922
AVZ	AVZ Minerals Ltd	0.33	-2.9%	15,688,600	$1,094,178,711
OCL	Objective Corp	19.71	-2.9%	20,983	$1,915,733,530
TWE	Treasury Wine Estate	11.65	-2.8%	1,772,211	$8,654,959,630