ASX 200 live: Seven-week low for stocks; CBA leads banks selloff; Wesfarmers offloads Coregas
Utilities, energy stocks the only bright spots as index falls to three-month low. CBA tops large-cap declines. Mesoblast down on profit-taking. Japan's Nippon Sanso to buy Wesfarmers' Coregas.
Welcome to the last Trading Day blog for 2024 this Friday, December 20. The ASX 200 index is down 1.3 per cent to 8063.20 points at 4pm AEDT.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and the tech-focused Nasdaq indexes closed 0.1 per cent lower, while the Dow Jones index eked out a 15-point gain.
The Aussie dollar is near US62.24c at 5pm AEDT.
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