ASX Midday Sector Update: Real Estate Stocks Lead Rally, Utilities Inch Down

MT Newswires Live
Dec 23, 2025

Real estate stocks soared over 3% at midday Tuesday, leading a broad-based rally. The S&P/ASX 200 index rose a little over 1%, to 8,790.50, trading at its highest since Nov. 12.

Goodman Group (ASX:GMG), whose shares jumped 9%, secured a AU$14 billion European data center deal with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The partnership involves an initial capital commitment of AU$3.9 billion to develop a portfolio of data center projects in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris totaling 435 megawatts of primary power and 282 megawatts of IT load.

On the flip side, the utilities sector was the only sector trading in the red, down 0.2%.

New Zealand's Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko lodged a formal complaint with the Rulings Panel alleging that Genesis Energy (ASX:GNE, NZE:GNE) failed to comply with dispatch instructions in respect of Huntly unit 5 and that it failed to immediately advise the system operator of the reason regarding why it was unable to comply with the issued dispatch instructions on Jan. 26, 2024, in breach of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010.

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