The US has brought in tariffs on automotives, which will affect some Australian parts makers, but is it a sign to come?

MARKET WRAP:

• ASX200: down 0.38%, 7,969
• GOLD: $3,069 US/oz
• BITCOIN: $138,608 AUD

• REITs and Tech stocks were hurt the most, with both sectors down more than 2%.
• Healius shares rose 10.7% to $1.45 after saying it intends to pay a special dividend worth $300 million to shareholders.
• Brent now approaching $74 US a barrel – that helped local energy companies.
• Woodside lifted 1.5%, Ampol 1.7% and Santos 0.6%.
• Climbing more than 1% were James Hardie, Evolution Mining and Amcor.
• A final offer of $2.8 billion for Domain Holdings didn’t have the same effect, with shares down 4.9% to $4.25.
• Bapcor lost 2.5%, ARB fell 2% and Eagers was down 2.7%
• Wisetech down 2%, NextDC falling 6.5% and Life360 down 3.1%.

CURRENCY UPDATE:

• AUD/USD: 63.08 US cents
• AUD/GBP: 48.9 pence
• AUD/EUR: 58 Euro cents
• AUD/JPY: 94 Japanese yen
• AUD/NZD: 1.10 NZ dollars