ASX 200 live: Santos, Woodside in focus after XRG fail; ASX's AGM challenges; CSL pulls pay vote
Second strike among AGM hiccups facing ASX. Super Retail in whistleblower settlement talks. Santos chief dismisses exit speculation. CSL pulls pay vote after admitting it misled workers.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Friday, September 19. The ASX 200 index closed 0.3 per cent higher to 8773.50 points, with most sectors in the green.
After the US Fed's 25 basis points cut a day earlier, US interest-rate futures showed that traders see a 75 per cent chance of a half-point rate cut by the end of the year. Also, Nvidia's $US5bn investment in Intel fired up tech stocks.
Wall Street's Nasdaq Composite gained almost a full percentage point to reach its 27th record close of 2025, the S&P 500 index gained half a percentage point to reach its 26th record close and the Dow Jones gained 124.1 points to notch its fifth record of the year.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is around $US116,800.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US65.96c.
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