Gold edged lower overnight as investors leaned towards riskier assets, driven by optimism on US-China trade talks and fading fears of a global economic slowdown.
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The Australian share market has closed higher for the ninth time in eleven days, with a big day for the mining sector outweighing a slide in major bank stocks.
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The Australian share market has moved higher despite a slide in major bank stocks, instead following the positive lead from Wall Street at the end of last week.
Oil prices rose nearly 4.0 per cent on Friday on signs of progress in US-China trade talks and stronger-than-expected economic data in both countries, including US employment and Chinese manufacturing activity numbers.
Macquarie Group has lifted first-half profit 11 per cent to $1.46 billion and increased its interim dividend, but maintains its full-year result will fall short of last year's record.
Orica has increased its shareholder payout after the explosives maker swung to a $245.1 million full-year profit despite $134 million in writedowns against IT and a WA ammonium nitrate plant.
Oil prices were nearly 2.0 per cent lower overnight after a leak on a key US pipeline disrupted supply flows and on data showing weak factory activity in China.
Gold prices jumped more than 1.0 per cent overnight supported by an interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve and as uncertainty surrounding a US-China trade deal bolstered the metal's safe-haven appeal.
Australia's peak medical group has released its latest annual scorecard on private health insurance and warned the country's private health system is on a "precipice".
Oil prices extended losses overnight after a steep US crude inventory build added to worries about a possible delay in resolving the US-China trade conflict which has hurt global oil demand.
Gold rose overnight on expectations of an interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve but bullion held a tight range as caution set in with investors awaiting clarity on the central bank's future monetary policy.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will receive an extra $1 billion in federal funding for a 'green bank' to invest in pumped hydro power, batteries, and gas energy projects.
Annual inflation inched higher to 1.7 per cent in the September quarter amid signs the lower Australian dollar is helping offset the impact of soft consumer demand.
Woolworths underpaid its employees by as much as $300 million over almost a decade, only discovering it had been keeping the cash when shocked store managers complained they were earning less than their staff.
Oil prices were mixed overnight, paring earlier steep losses as investors focused on signs that US-China trade tensions could ease next month and expectations that US refined product stockpiles declined last week.
Gold fell to a one-week low overnight as hopes for a US-China trade deal buoyed risk sentiment while gold investors will watch how other financial markets react to this week's Federal Reserve meeting at which the central bank is widely expected to cut US interest rates.
