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Australia stock market historical data

1,696 listings across ASX. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

Australia key facts

  • Australia's stock market trades on ASX, priced in AUD; its headline indices are ASX 200.
  • Australian Securities Exchange, founded 1987 in Sydney, trades 10:00 to 16:00 AEST, opening auction staggered by symbol from 10:00, closing auction to 16:12, Monday to Friday, regulated by Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
  • DataCedar covers 1,696 Australia listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About ASX

Full name
Australian Securities Exchange
Location
Sydney, Australia
Founded
1987
Regulator
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Trading hours
10:00 to 16:00 AEST, opening auction staggered by symbol from 10:00, closing auction to 16:12
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Australia/Sydney
Currency
AUD
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Three letter codes (BHP, CBA, CSL); ETFs and others use up to five
Headline indices
ASX 200
Listed
about 2,000 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 1.8 trillion (2025)
  • Formed by merging six state exchanges in 1987; the Sydney exchange dates from 1871.
  • Uses the CHESS settlement system, which it has been replacing after abandoning a blockchain rebuild in 2022.
  • The S&P/ASX 200 is the benchmark; banks and miners dominate its weight.
  • ASX publishes end of day data; historical intraday data is licensed through ASX DataSphere and vendors.

About Australia market data on DataCedar

Australia trades on ASX, priced in AUD, and its headline indices are ASX 200. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 1,696 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

Australia stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/asx%3AXJO/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesAustralia exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

Most traded in Australia

Ranked by average daily traded value over the last 30 sessions, across the country's venues.

  1. 1XJOAsx 200ASX
  2. 2BHPBHP Group LimitedASX
  3. 3CBACommonwealth Bank of AustraliaASX
  4. 4WBCWestpac Banking CorporationASX
  5. 5RIORio Tinto GroupASX
  6. 6CSLCSL LimitedASX
  7. 7WDSWoodside Energy Group LtdASX
  8. 8NXTNEXTDC LimitedASX
  9. 9NSTNorthern Star Resources LimitedASX
  10. 10WESWesfarmers LimitedASX
  11. 11FMGFortescue LtdASX
  12. 12GMGGoodman GroupASX
  13. 13ALLAristocrat Leisure LimitedASX
  14. 14EVNEvolution Mining LimitedASX
  15. 15JHXJames Hardie Industries plcASX
  16. 16PLSPLS Group LimitedASX
  17. 17WTCWiseTech Global LimitedASX
  18. 18SIGSigma Healthcare LimitedASX
  19. 19LYCLynas Rare Earths LimitedASX
  20. 20COLColes Group LimitedASX
  21. 21XROXero LimitedASX
  22. 22TCLTransurban GroupASX
  23. 23S32South32 LimitedASX
  24. 24GMDGenesis Minerals LimitedASX
  25. 25QANQantas Airways LimitedASX
  26. 26RMDResMed Inc.ASX
  27. 27BXBBrambles LimitedASX
  28. 28CWYCleanaway Waste Management LimitedASX
  29. 29COHCochlear LimitedASX
  30. 30SUNSuncorp Group LimitedASX

Common questions

Australia market data

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