Strota/ Newsroom/ Global Markets/ 2026-08-04

ASX 200 jumped 1.9%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

S&P/ASX 200 closed at 9,145.80 on 2026-08-04, jumped 1.9% on the session and is +5.0% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finished the 4 August session at 9064.6, a gain of 0.98% on the day. It was a broadly firm session by recent standards, and it extended a run that has left the index up 1.92% over the past week and 2.49% over the past month.

The close leaves the index close to the top of its own one-year band. Its 52-week high sits at 9198.6 and its 52-week low at 8365.9, which puts Tuesday's finish 1.46% below that high and 8.35% above that low. The index also traded above both of its widely watched trend lines: the 50-day moving average, an average of the last fifty closing levels used as a short-term trend marker, stood at 8799.72, while the slower 200-day average stood at 8777.57. Over longer windows the picture is one of steady rather than dramatic gains, with the index up 4.42% over three months and 4.02% so far in 2026.

Peer markets do not all share the same as-of date, because exchanges around the world close at different hours, so these are each market's most recent close rather than a single simultaneous snapshot. Alongside the ASX 200, two other markets are current to 4 August: the Nikkei fell 1.81% and South Korea's KOSPI dropped 6.49%. The major US indices are current to 3 August, where the S&P 500 rose 1.48%, the Nasdaq 2.13% and the Dow 1.32%. European and several Asian markets are dated 31 July, covering the FTSE 100 at -0.27%, the DAX at 0.07%, the CAC 40 at 0.28%, the Euro Stoxx 50 at 0.21%, the Hang Seng at 0.1%, Shanghai at 0.72%, the TAIEX at 7.98%, the Sensex at 0.21% and the Nifty 50 at 0.27%.

The news flow attached to the index is mostly commentary rather than hard events. Market Index carried an evening wrap reporting that the ASX 200 was closing in on a record high, with Wesfarmers and Commonwealth Bank named among the leading blue chips; The Motley Fool Australia published a list of the day's top ten ASX 200 shares and a preview piece on things to watch on Tuesday 4 August. These are reports rather than confirmed drivers. The remaining items are index and fund explainers from S&P Global and Kalkine, plus an older CNBC report on South Korean stocks reaching a record.

The data shows no single obvious catalyst for the day's move. What it does establish is the arithmetic: a rise of 0.98% to 9064.6, a position above both moving averages, and a level within touching distance of the 52-week high. What it does not establish is why, and nothing here speaks to what happens next.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.