ASX 200 live: WiseTech buying e2open; Elders earnings; Origin narrows guidance

Investors back WiseTech's $3bn e2open deal. No taxpayer bailout for Healthscope: Butler. Deep Yellow, Paladin, Boss top gainers on US president's nuclear focus. AUD at six-month high as US dollar falls. Miss on earnings weighs on Elders. 

Agribusiness Elders' interim earnings are on investor radars.

That's all from the Trading Day blog for Monday, May 26. The ASX 200 index closed flat at 8361 points with tech gains offset by utilities falls. The heavyweight banks are slightly lower.

On Friday, US President Donald Trump's 50 per cent tariffs on 27 EU nations kept Wall Street investors on the edge. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes closed more than 0.6 per cent lower and the technology-focused Nasdaq shed 1 per cent. 

US futures turned higher on Sunday (Monday AEST) after Trump delayed the initial start date of the tariffs to July 9 to factor in more negotiations.  US markets are on a long weekend break for Memorial Day.

Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is above $US109,700.

The Aussie dollar is trading around US65.33c.

Originally published as ASX 200 live: WiseTech buying e2open; Elders earnings; Origin narrows guidance