{"id":77520,"date":"2026-08-24T03:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/08\/24\/australian-market-extends-early-gains-in-mid-market-50\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:25:49","slug":"australian-market-extends-early-gains-in-mid-market-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/08\/24\/australian-market-extends-early-gains-in-mid-market-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Market Extends Early Gains In Mid-market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Australian stock market is extending its early gains in mid-market trading on Monday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street on Friday. The benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 index is moving above the 9,100.00 level, with gains in iron ore miners and <span class=\"landLinks\">technology<\/span> stocks partially offset by weakness in energy and financial stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 Index is gaining 51.70 points or 0.57 percent to 9,110.60, after touching a high of 9,131.30 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is up 54.70 points or 0.59 percent to 9,324.40. Australian stocks closed modestly lower on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Among the major miners, Fortescue and Mineral Resources are gaining more than 2 percent each, while Rio Tinto is up more than 1 percent and BHP Group is adding more than 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Oil stocks are mostly lower. Beach energy and Origin Energy are losing more than 1 percent each, while Woodside Energy is down almost 1 percent and Santos is slipping more than 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Among tech stocks, Afterpay owner Block and Xero are gaining almost 2 percent each, while WiseTech Global is up almost 1 percent and Appen is advancing more than 2 percent, while Zip is losing more than 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Gold miners are mixedc. Resolute Mining is losing more than 1 percent and Genesis Minerals is edging down 0.2 percent, while Newmont is gaining almost 2 percent and Evolution Mining is edging up 0.5 percent. Northern Star Resources is relatively flat.<\/p>\n<p>Among the big four banks, Commonwealth Bank is declining almost 2 percent, while Westpac, National Australia Bank and ANZ Banking are losing almost 1 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>In the currency market, the Aussie dollar is trading at $0.717 on Monday. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Australian Market Extends Early Gains In Mid-market<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-08-24 03:25:49<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian stock market is extending its early gains in mid-market trading on Monday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/77521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}