Christmas & Black Friday sales make up a huge proportion of shopping for the year, but will purchases this year move the market in any significant way?

MARKET WRAP:

• ASX200: up 0.13%, 7,058
• AUD: 65.48 US cents
• GOLD: $1,982 US/oz
• BITCOIN: $56,760 AUD

• The oil price rebounded over fears of OPEC cuts
• Woodside, Santos, Ampol and Beach all up by around one percent. 
• Karoon Energy was a standout, leaping around 3.5% to $2.12 a share.
• Paladin Energy is 3 percent higher at $1.00
• Whitehaven Coal was up 2.3 per cent to $6.90 
• Allkem was up 2.2 per cent.
• Heading backwards today though was Mercury NZ, which fell more than 5% to $5.46
• Northern Star Resources down 2.5 per cent to $11.46.
• Athlete’s Foot owner Accent Group has dropped 8 per cent to $1.77