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Evening Market Analysis:Another Tough Session

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Publish date: Wed, 23 May 2012, 07:36 PM
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Evening Market Analysis:Another Tough Session

Aussie shares gave up all yesterday's gains, after a mixed night on international markets overnight.

Local sentiment was battered further by concerns tonight's EU summit will involve discussions on managing a Greek exit from the eurozone.

All sectors finished underwater, with material and IT stocks the hardest hit.

The banking majors weighed on the market; ANZ was the clear underperformer of the group, dropping 2%.

Not helping the big miners was the OECD projecting that global growth would ease to 3.4% this year from 3.6% last year.

BHP declined 1.2% whilst Rio Tinto let go of 1.1%.

Myer plummeted 7.8% after reporting 3Q FY12 sales of $651.1 million, down 0.9% compared to the same quarter last year.

The group also downgraded its guidance for FY12.

The ASX 200 shed 54 points (-1.3%) to settle at 4067.

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