ASX 200 down; Super Retail, Brambles dive; Fortescue iron ore shipments down qoq
HMC raising $300m for $2bn Global Switch data centre buy. Fortescue's record output down on prior quarter. Under-pressure Super Retail's sales up. Brambles slower 1Q 'unsurprising'. 25pc chance of White exit from WiseTech: Morningstar. BlueScope cut to neutral.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Thursday, October 24. The ASX 200 index is down 0.4 per cent at 8186.10 points at 10.15am AEST, led by tech falls. Miners are also down and financials are treading water.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US66.26c.
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