Half-time wrap:
The share market entered the week in reverse gear as commodity price weakness and disappointing trading updates from retailers weighed.
The ASX 200 shed 54 points or 0.7% by mid-session. Consumer stocks, gold miners and energy producers led the retreat following a soft end to the week for precious metals and crude, and poorly-received reports this morning from Cettire, Metcash and City Chic Collective.
Tech and industrials were the only sectors to resist the down-trend.Macquarie Group, Transurban and NAB were the pick of the index heavyweights. Wesfarmers, Fortescue, ResMed and Star Entertainment were among the drags.
US stocks finished mixed on Friday at the end of a broadly positive week. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both finished around 0.15% lower. The Dow inched up 0.04%.
Personal trading: Caught the low in HYT. Also took ALC on the retest of the breakout. Too eager to get into CCX - breaking even would be a good result from here. Too cautious with DRO - hoped it would have a look at $1.40 before bouncing.
