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ASX 200 live: Lendlease selling Capella; Rinehart lifts Lynas stake; Origin cuts APLNG guidance; Apple iPhone sales dip
Rinehart lifts Lynas stake. Broker upgrade for Zip. Origin down on weak quarter, guidance cut. Lendlease selling Capella. US probing if DeepSeek used Nvidia chips. Apple's iPhone sales dip.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Friday, January 31. The ASX 200 index is up 0.8 per cent to a record high 8562.70 points at 11.20am AEDT on strong mining gains. Utilities are the only sector in the red, weighed down by Origin's decline.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 closed 0.5 per cent higher, the technology-focused Nasdaq index climbed 0.3 per cent and the Dow Jones ended 0.4 per cent stronger.
Cryptocurrency market leader bitcoin is near $US104,532.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US62.12c.
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