Australia's main stock market index, the ASX200, fell to 8662 points on August 1, 2025, losing 0.92% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 0.75% and is up 9.05% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Australia. Australia Stock Market Index - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Share Prices: All Shares/Broad: Total for Australia (SPASTT01AUQ657N) from Q2 1958 to Q1 2025 about Australia and stock market.

The S&P/ASX 200 index, the most prominent index of stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), lost over one fifth of its value between the end of February and the end of March 2020, owing to the economic impact of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It has since recovered, and surpassed its pre-corona level in April 2021. Despite fluctuations, it reached its highest value in June 2025 at 8542.3 during this period.The S&P/ASX 200 index is considered the benchmark index for the Australian share market and contains the 200 largest companies listed on the ASX.

Australia's main stock market index, the ASX200, fell to 8667 points on July 25, 2025, losing 0.49% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 1.36% and is up 9.41% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Australia. Australia Stock Market Index - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Financial Market: Share Prices for Australia (SPASTT01AUM661N) from Jan 1958 to Jun 2025 about Australia and stock market.

During the firs quarter of 2025, the average daily trade value on the Australian equity market amounted to 8.5 billion Australian dollars. The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has experienced significant growth and volatility in recent years, with daily trading values reaching unprecedented levels. In the first quarter of 2020, the average value of daily trades surged to over *** billion Australian dollars, a substantial increase from the previous quarter's *** billion. This spike, likely triggered by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, marked a turning point in market activity that persisted well beyond the initial shock.

Dataset Information

This dataset includes daily price data for various stock indices.

  Instruments Included

ADSMI: United Arab Emirates Stock Market (ADX General) - United Arab Emirates AEX: Netherlands Stock Market (AEX) - Netherlands (NL) AS30: Australian All - Australia (AU) AS51: Australia S&P/ASX 200 Stock Market Index - Australia (AU) AS52: ASX 50 - Australia (AU) ASE: Greece Stock Market (ASE) - Greece (GR) ATX: Austria Stock Market (ATX) - Austria (AT) BEL20:… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/paperswithbacktest/Indices-Daily-Price.

Australian Securities Exchange is Australia's primary securities exchange and is one of the largest listed exchange groups by market capitalization.

Stock market return (%, year-on-year) in Australia was reported at 19.3 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Stock market return (%, year-on-year) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Prices for Australia Stock Market Index (All Ordinaries Composite) including live quotes, historical charts and news. Australia Stock Market Index (All Ordinaries Composite) was last updated by Trading Economics this August 2 of 2025.

Prices for Australia Stock Market Index (AU50) including live quotes, historical charts and news. Australia Stock Market Index (AU50) was last updated by Trading Economics this August 2 of 2025.

Key information about Australia Market Capitalization

• Australia Market Capitalization accounted for 1,878.429 USD bn in Feb 2025, compared with a percentage of 1,953.275 USD bn in the previous month
• Australia Market Capitalization is updated monthly, available from Jan 1985 to Feb 2025
• The data reached an all-time high of 2,088.660 USD bn in Sep 2024 and a record low of 46.183 USD bn in Feb 1985

CEIC converts monthly Market Capitalization into USD. Australian Securities Exchange provides Market Capitalization in local currency. The Federal Reserve Board period end market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Market Capitalization prior to January 2024 includes only domestically listed companies.

The average for 2022 based on 2 countries was 35.03 percent. The highest value was in Australia: 64.35 percent and the lowest value was in New Zealand: 5.71 percent. The indicator is available from 1975 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Prices for Australia Stock Market Index (AU200) including live quotes, historical charts and news. Australia Stock Market Index (AU200) was last updated by Trading Economics this August 2 of 2025.

Between January 2010 and June 2025, the total market capitalization of domestic companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) grew from **** trillion Australian dollars to **** trillion Australian dollars. While the overall trend was upward, the growth curve was far from linear. The two most notable periods of decline were from March to September 2011, and the crash of March 2020 caused by the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coinciding with the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the value of options traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) spiked in March 2020, reaching *** billion Australian dollars for the month. While the volume of options traded on the ASX also spiked this this month, it is notable that the spike in terms of value was much greater than in terms of volume. It is also notable that the overwhelming majority of the spike in this month came from call options - which enable the option holder to purchase a financial instrument (like shares) for an agreed price at a date in the future. By contrast, put options enable holders to sell a financial instrument at an agreed value in the future. This suggests that the increased value for this month was driven by investors trying to protect their position from the economic fallout of the pandemic. By June 2025, the total value of options traded on the ASX had fallen to around *** billion Australian dollars.

Key information about Australia S&P/ASX 200

• Australia S&P/ASX 200 closed at 8,172.4 points in Feb 2025, compared with 8,532.3 points at the previous month end
• Australia Equity Market Index: Month End: ASX: S&P/ASX 200 data is updated monthly, available from May 1992 to Feb 2025, with an average number of 4,604.3 points
• The data reached an all-time high of 8,532.3 points in Jan 2025 and a record low of 1,428.8 points in Oct 1992

The S&P/ASX 200 Index (XJO) is recognised as the investable benchmark for the Australian equity market, it addresses the needs of investment managers to benchmark against a portfolio characterised by sufficient size and liquidity. The S&P/ASX 200 is comprised of the S&P/ASX 100 plus an additional 100 stocks. It forms the basis for the S&P/ASX 200 Index Future and Options and the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)

Stock market index in Australia, June, 2025 The most recent value is 155.31 points as of June 2025, an increase compared to the previous value of 151 points. Historically, the average for Australia from January 1960 to June 2025 is 47.28 points. The minimum of 3.4 points was recorded in December 1960, while the maximum of 155.31 points was reached in June 2025. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

In June 2025, nearly *********** options were traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). This was slightly above the monthly average of around *********** recorded since January 2020. However, The ASX options market is much lower than the volume of futures traded on the ASX. Options and futures are similar in that they are both financial derivatives that provide an investor the ability to buy (or sell) a financial asset for an agreed price at a certain point in time, but they differ in that futures require that the transaction take place, whereas options do not. Options and the coronavirus pandemic Coinciding with the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the volume of options traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) spiked in **********. It is notable that the spike in terms of the value of options traded was much greater than in terms of volume. It is also notable that the majority of the spike in this month came from call options - which enable the option holder to purchase a financial instrument (like shares) for an agreed price at a date in the future. By contrast, put options enable holders to sell a financial instrument at an agreed value in the future. This suggests that the increased value for this month was driven by investors trying to capitalize on the pandemic by locking in lower prices for the future, with the (correct) assumption that prices would rise again in the following months. How is the value of derivatives calculated? Calculating the value of derivatives is different to an item like shares, in that derivatives contracts do not include the underlying asset price. Both options and futures are contracts which provide the ability to purchase a financial asset in the future for an agreed price – meaning the purchase of the contract does not include the purchasing of the asset itself. Generally, the ‘notional value’ is used to calculate the value of derivatives – which includes both the cost of the contract itself as well as the underlying asset. Note how options do not require the transaction take place, but yet the value of transaction is included. This one reason behind why, for example, banks in the U.S. and banks in the UK can hold derivates that are well above the national gross domestic product of their respective countries.

Disclaimer

All information presented here is for display purpose only, and may not be complete nor accurate. This information does not constitute a financial advice, and should not be used to make any investment decisions or financial transactions. This author rejects any claims for liabilities resulting from the use, misuse, or abuse of this information. Use at your own risk.

Motivation

Due to time zone differences between Australia and most of the rest of the world, Australians have the advantage of knowing what happened at markets elsewhere in the world, before the Australian market (ASX) is open in the morning, Sydney time.

This prior knowledge provides an excellent opportunity for arbitrage. In the hands of a savvy day-trader, or a shrewd long-term investor, this information gives you the advantage of predicting the ASX, and achieve potentially significant financial gains.

Method

For the ten years period from 1/7/2010 to 30/6/2020, the daily closing prices for 41 global market indicators are collected from various reliable public-domain sources. We checked the data for error or omissions and normalised all tabulated records in a format that facilitates further analysis and visulaisation.

Those 41 market indicators are what we consider significant measures of various external factors that may affect the performance of the Australian Stock Market, as represented by the ASX200. Those indicators are:

• Nine other major stock market indices from the USA, Europe, and Asia.

• The exchange rate of the $AU against 10 world currencies that are most relevant to Australia's international trade.

• Official interest rates by the RBA and the US Feds, as indicators of affinity of foreign funds to Australia.

• Yield rates for governments-issued bonds by 10 countries from Western and Asian economies, as measures of relative availability of credit and cross-border investment. Bonds are grouped into "Short-term" (one year maturity) and "Long-term" (10 to 30 years maturity).

• Since Australia's economy is mainly an exporter of raw materials, we include prices for commodities that are most traded by Australia, as indicators for potential profitability for various relevant sectors of the ASX.

We feed relevant data to a machine learning model, which uses this data to extract heuristic parameters that are used to predict the ASX200 on daily basis, before market opens, and validates predictions at market close, with favourable results.

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