Australian Stock Market Weekly Wrap: ASX 200 Edges Higher Amid ASX Outage, Strong GDP and Rate-Hike Jitters (1–6 December 2025)
Australia’s sharemarket has just finished a choppy first week of December with modest gains, shrugging off a major ASX outage, mixed sector moves and a fresh dose of macroeconomic data that has traders reassessing the Reserve Bank of Australia path for 2026. From Monday’s glitch‑marred session to Friday’s AI‑powered rally in data‑centre and lithium names, the S&P/ASX 200 spent most of the week grinding sideways near record territory rather than breaking decisively higher.
