Market Updates
A twice-daily podcast from the Marcus Today team, designed for self-directed investors. Stay informed with the latest stock market, financial, and business news, published every weekday just before the market opens and after it closes (AEST).
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 2007
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Monday 12th February
The S&P 500 achieved a historic milestone, closing above 5,000 for the first time, while the Nasdaq briefly reached above 16,000. Gains were driven by mega-caps and chip stocks. Notably, Nvidia, up 3…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Friday 9th February
ASX 200 managed to eke out a 6-point rise to 7645 (+0.1%) in relatively stable trade. Results kicked off this week and plenty of stock volatility to keep us amused. Mixed session with banks flat, Big…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Friday 9th February
The S&P 500 closed flat on Thursday after briefly topping the 5,000 mark for the first time on record to finish at 4,997.91 after reaching a high of 5,000.40 heading into the close. The Dow Jones ros…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Thursday 8th February
The ASX200 has finished the day up 23 points in a narrow day of trade. Utilities was the best-performing sector thanks to AGL’s big 10% rise. The company reported a quadrupling in first-half earnings…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Thursday 8th February
S&P 500 hits record high with earnings, rate outlook in spotlight. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 0.95% to settle at 15,756.64, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 156 points, or 0.4%, to clo…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Wednesday 7th February
ASX 200 slips from highs to end up 34 points at 7616 (+0.5%). Banks pretty much unchanged with CBA up 0.2% and NAB losing 0.2% on a change of CEO. MQG rallied 0.7% with insurers doing well again, QBE…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Wednesday 7th February
Stocks rose on Tuesday as Wall Street assessed the latest batch of corporate earnings and the timeline for rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.
The S&P 500 rose 0.23% to settle at 4,954.23, while the N…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Tuesday 6th February
The ASX 200 falls another 44 points to 7582 (-0.6%). Off the lows and relatively unchanged post the RBA decision to keep rates unchanged and a surprising bias to the upside on rates. Growth forecast…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Tuesday 6th February
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 274.30 points, or 0.71%, to settle at 38,380.12. The S&P 500 slipped 0.32% to close at 4,942.81. The index hit a record high last week as Big Tech stocks move…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Monday 5th February
The ASX 200 closed down 74 points at 7626 (1.0%) as commodity stocks suffered. Most major sectors are in the red with big miners and REITs the worst performers. BHP, FMG and RIO all down around 2.5% …
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Monday 5th February
The S&P 500 notched a fresh record high on Friday as quarterly results from technology companies including Facebook-parent Meta topped expectations and the January jobs report came in much better tha…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Friday 2nd February
The ASX 200 powered back up another 111 points to an all-time high of 7699 (+1.5%) as US tech took off. Green across the screen, banks found buyers again with the Big Bank Basket up to $199.37 (+1.4%…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Friday 2nd February
Stocks in the US closed higher on Thursday, as the S&P 500 rose 1.25%, the Nasdaq advanced 1.3% and the Dow Jones added 369.
Meta soars after hours on first dividend payment and Buy Back. Amazon and A…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Thursday 1st February
ASX 200 gives back 93 points, back down to 7586 (+1.2%) on US FOMC news and profit-taking after an end-of-month rally sent stocks to all-time highs. Banks that have led the market higher taking a hit…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Thursday 1st February
US stocks fell on Wednesday as traders digest the latest FOMC monetary policy decision and comments from Chair Powell. The Fed kept interest rates steady as expected and Chair Powell said it will be …
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Wednesday 31st January
ASX regrouped after an early swoon jumping 81 points to 7681 (+1.1%). The CPI number turned things around coming in below forecast and pointing to zero chance now of a rate rise. Rate cuts could be s…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Wednesday 31st January
US equities finished mixed overnight. The NASDAQ fell 0.76% ahead of Microsoft and Google's quarterly results after the closing bell. The S&P 500 closed nearly unchanged, down 0.06%, near the previou…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Tuesday 30th January
ASX closed up 22 points to 7600 (0.3%) after shooting higher in morning trade. It hit near record highs before a sell-off. Banks eased back very slightly with WBC down 0.5% and Big Bank Basket down t…
Marcus Today Pre-Market Podcast – Tuesday 30th January
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 224.02 points, or 0.59% to close at 38,333.45, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.12% and settled at 15,628.04.
ASX SPI Futures up 38 points. It was the sixth r…
Marcus Today End of Day Podcast – Monday 29th January
ASX 200 finished up 23 points to 7578 (0.3%). A positive start to the week with some big events to come. Once again, we saw a divergence in the markets with financials continuing to defy analysts and…