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NAB's full-year cash earnings fell 13% to A$6.1bn, about 4% below Macquarie's forecast. A A$1.3bn software amortisation charge did most of that; excluding it, earnings were flat at A$7.1bn and the dividend was held at A$1.70. The shares fell as much as 7.9% to A$37.91 before trading 6.19% lower at A$38.62 in Sydney.
The Dow jumped 1,569.40 points (+3.03%) to 53,356.12 — its best post-midterm session in 44 years — while the Nasdaq Composite added just 1.44%. Equal-weight S&P versus the Nasdaq 100 had already gapped 14 points before the vote, a 99th-percentile divergence. The index is still 2.54% below its August high.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the benchmark US Crude Oil price – remains depressed for the second straight day on Thursday, trading just below mid-$87.00s during the Asian session and close to a near one-month low touched the previous day.
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