The Australian sharemarket has finished flat heading into another important US jobs readout and a potential blockbuster Supreme Court ruling on the legality of Donald Trump’s trade war.<\/p>\n
The S&P\/ASX200 index on Friday ended three points lower at 8,717.8, a drop of 0.03 per cent, while the All Ordinaries dipped about a half-point to 9,045.9.<\/p>\n
For the week, the ASX200 dropped 10 points, or 0.1 per cent, in its second straight week of losses.<\/p>\n
Four of the ASX’s 11 sectors finished higher and six finished lower, with utilities flat.<\/p>\n
Energy was the biggest mover, rising 2.1 per cent as oil prices rebounded. Brent crude was changing hands at US$62 a barrel, after falling below $US60 shortly after the US strike in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
The Australian dollar was trading for 66.95 US cents, down from 67.03 US cents on Thursday at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian sharemarket has finished flat heading into another important US jobs readout and a potential blockbuster Supreme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39066,114,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-228826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aap","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}