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The final trading session of March delivered extreme rotational whiplash. Monday’s aggressive "risk-off" posturing was completely unwound on Tuesday, as capital flooded out of defensive inflation hedges and back into high-beta growth. This massive daily reversal is vividly captured in the latest momentum chart, …

The Australian equity market delivered a session of extreme whiplash to close out the month. Tuesday’s price action was characterized by a massive, synchronized mean-reversion trade, completely unwinding the aggressive "risk-off" posturing witnessed on Monday. Capital rapidly rotated out of inflation hedges and defensive …

"We are no longer talking about a theoretical deficit. The structural gap between supply and demand is opening up in real time — and war is accelerating it."— Senior commodity strategist, Goldman Sachs, March 2026

By the close of trade on Tuesday 31 March 2026, the S&P/ASX300 Metals and Mining Index had registered a gain of 22.30 points or 0.30% to close at 7,536.50 — a movement so modest that most sector-level observers would have characterised the session as …

Tuesday 31 March 2026 delivered another standout individual stock performance against the backdrop of the S&P/ASX 200's pedestrian 0.25% gain, with Enegex Limited (ASX:ENX) closing at $0.250 — up $0.044 or 21.95% — on volume of 1,118,103 shares. The bid and offer range at …

Tuesday 31 March 2026 was, by most conventional measures, an unremarkable day for Australianequities. The S&P/ASX200 Index — the benchmark gauge of Australia's largest and mostliquidlisted companies — closed at 8,481.80 points, up a pedestrian 20.80 points or 0.25% on the day. For the …

The All Ordinaries index has fallen from its all-time high of 9,436 to the 8,600–8,800 range by late March — here is a comprehensive analysis of the drivers, the data, and what comes next for Australian investors