ASX 200: Nine-owned Domain assessing CoStar bid; Cosette to buy Mayne for $672m; QBE dividend up
Takeover bids fire up Domain, Nine, Mayne. Coalition matches Whyalla support promise. RBA too slow to hike rates: Bullock. GYG down on 'soft' US sales. QBE soars. Bendigo Bank cuts rates.
That's all from the Trading Day blog for Friday, February 21. The ASX 200 index closed 0.3 per cent lower at 8296.20 points.
Wall Street's major indexes closed down with the S&P 500 shedding 0.4 per cent, the Dow Jones index falling 1 per cent and the technology-focused Nasdaq off 0.5 per cent.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is above $US98,000.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US63.94c.
Originally published as ASX 200: Nine-owned Domain assessing CoStar bid; Cosette to buy Mayne for $672m; QBE dividend up
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