ASX 200: Middle East jittters mostly erase ASX gain. New Hope's $100m buyback; Hanwha back at Austal; RBA's Sarah Hunter at business summit
NAB, CBA bosses detail housing crisis pain points. Hanwha seeks FIRB nod for Austal stake boost. Coal miner New Hope's $100m buyback. Active Super members to bear greenwashing penalty burden.
That's all from the Trading Day blog for Tuesday, March 18. The ASX 200 index ends up 0.1 per cent to 7860.4 points, mostly erasing a 0.9 intraday gain as Middle East tensions flared.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes rose nearly 1 per cent, respectively, and the technology-focused Nasdaq added 0.3 per cent.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin just above $US83,000.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US63.87c.
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