{"id":78554,"date":"2026-09-17T03:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/17\/australian-market-trims-early-gains-in-mid-market-53\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:32:41","slug":"australian-market-trims-early-gains-in-mid-market-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/17\/australian-market-trims-early-gains-in-mid-market-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Market Trims 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 market is trimming its early gains in mid-market moves on Thursday, but extending the gains in the previous session, despite the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 is moving well above the 8,700 level, with gains in iron ore miners and financial stocks partially offset by weakness in gold miners, energy and <span class=\"landLinks\">technology<\/span> stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 Index is gaining 31.40 points or 0.36 percent to 8,727.90, after touching a high of 8,787.10 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is up 31.70 points or 0.36 percent to 8,906.20. Australian stocks ended modestly higher on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among major miners, BHP Group and Mineral Resources are edging up 0.2 percent each, while Fortescue and Rio Tinto are adding almost 1 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>Oil stocks are mostly lower. Woodside Energy is down more than 1 percent, Beach energy is declining more than 3 percent and Santos is losing more than 2 percent, while Origin Energy is edging up 0.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the tech space, Afterpay owner Block is down almost 1 percent, while WiseTech Global, Zip and Xero are edging down 0.2 to 0.4 percent each. Appen is gaining almost 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Among the big four banks, ANZ Banking and National Australia Bank are advancing more than 1 percent each, while Westpac and Commonwealth Bank are gaining almost 1 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>Among gold miners, Evolution Mining and Northern Star Resources are losing more than 1 percent each, while Resolute Mining and Genesis Minerals are down more than 2 percent each. Newmont is declining almost 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the currency market, the Aussie dollar is trading at $0.710 on Thursday. <\/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 Trims Early Gains In Mid-market<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-09-17 03:32:41<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian market is trimming its early gains in mid-market moves on Thursday, but extending the gains in the previous session, despite the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78555,"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-78554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554","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=78554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/78555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}