- ASX200 closes Monday?s session 0.19% lower at 6780.90.
- Nexion soars 90% since ASX debut last week.
- Tyro overcomes outage to post record high H1 results.
The Australian market closed 0.19% lower at 6780.90 on Monday as Csl and the banks weighed on the market despite big gains by BHP and Costa Group.
Webjet surged nearly 9% on hopes for a return to travel soon as Australia?s COVID-19 vaccine rollout began today.
The mining sector surged more than 3% in today?s session with De Grey soaring almost 10% and Sandfire Resources climbing over 8.5%.
Bitcoin is trading around US$56,300 this afternoon, down 1% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum has pulled back to trade around US$1800 at 4:30pm AEDT.
In tech news, shares in Australian-based hybrid cloud infrastructure provider Nexion have skyrocketed 90% since its debut last Thursday. The company doubled its revenue year-on-year in FY2020 to AUD$4.5M, and plans to use the capital from its IPO to expand into NZ, Canada and Africa.
Making headlines, payment solutions provider Tyro surged nearly 12% following the release of half-year results showing a 13% increase in the number of merchants it services and a record-high number of transactions processed by merchants, up 10% to AUD$12.1BN.
And the whole board of an elementary school in the UK has stepped down following their distasteful comments about parents being shared on a public WebEx call that went viral.