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The normal trading or business days of the ASX are week-days, Monday to Friday. ASX does not trade on national public holidays: New Year's Day (1 January), Australia Day (26 January, and observed on this day or the first business day after this date), Good Friday (that varies each year), Easter Monday, Anzac day (25 April), King's Birthday ...
National Stock Exchange of Australia has a start-of-day enquiry session from 2:30 am to 3:00 am, a pre-open session from 3:00 am to 10:00 am, a normal trading session from 10:00 am to 4:15 pm, and a post-market session (end-of-day enquiry) from 4:15 pm to 11:00 pm (all times in AEST).
The ASX 200 was started on 31 March 2000 with a value of 3133.3, [3] equal to the value of the All Ordinaries at that date. The ASX 200 reached 6,000 points for the first time on Thursday 15 February 2007. [4] On 22 December 2017, the ASX 200 was 6,069. [5] The ASX 200 crossed the 7,000 points level for the first time on 16 January 2020. [6]
As the price of mining shares grew, new companies were listed by promoters hoping to cash in. From October to December 1969 the ASX All Mining index rose by 44%. Mining stocks peaked in January 1970, then immediately crashed. Poseidon shares peaked at an intraday high of $280 in February 1970, and fell rapidly thereafter. [3]
On 17 May 2019 the shares closed on the ASX at $3.56 up from a twelve-month low of $2.547 per share [98] In February 2014, Telstra raised its dividend from 14c to 14.5c per share. [99] Amid the global pandemic crisis of the coronavirus in 2020, Telstra was one of three companies of the ASX 200 to gain in the week starting 15 March.
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For example, NASDAQ is open 9:30–16:00 ET and anyone outside of the Eastern Time Zone will have a different trading day (for example, in Vancouver a trading day would run from 6:30–13:00). During the part of the year when North America is on standard time, it would be 17:30–24:00 in Moscow, and in Shanghai it would be 22:30–5:00. [3]
It is made up of the share prices for 500 of the largest companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). [2] The market capitalization of the companies included in the All Ords index amounts to over 95% of the value of all shares listed on the ASX. The 3-letter exchange ticker in Australia for the All Ordinaries is "XAO".