(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market slightly trims early strong gains in mid-market moves on Thursday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 is moving above the 8,300 level, with gains is gold miners, technology and financial stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is gaining 105.80 points or 1.29...
(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market slightly trims early strong gains in mid-market moves on Thursday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 is moving above the 8,300 level, with gains is gold miners, technology and financial stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is gaining 105.80 points or 1.29 percent to 8,319.10, after touching a high of 8,345.60 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is up 103.70 points or 1.23 percent to 8,560.50. Australian stocks ended modestly lower on Wednesday. Among major miners, BHP Group and Fortescue Metals are edging up 0.2 to 0.5 percent each, while Mineral Resources is losing more than 1 percent. Rio Tinto is flat. Oil stocks are mostly lower. Woodside Energy and Santos are edging down 0.2 to 0.5 percent each, while Origin Energy is losing more than 1 percent. Beach energy is edging up 0.2 percent. In the tech space, Afterpay owner Block and Appen are gaining more than 3 percent each, while Zip is surging almost 7 percent, WiseTech Global is advancing 1.5 percent and Xero is adding more than 1 percent. Among the big four banks, Commonwealth Bank is gaining 2.5 percent and National Australia Bank is advancing almost 3 percent, while Westpac and ANZ Banking are adding more than 2 percent each. Among gold miners, Gold Road Resources is advancing almost 3 percent, Evolution Mining is up more than 2 percent and Newmont is adding more than 3 percent, while Resolute Mining is declining 2.5 percent. Northern Star Resources is flat. In economic news, the unemployment rate in Australia came in at a seasonally adjusted 4.0 percent in December, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday - in line with expectations and up from 3.9 percent in November. The participation rate was 67.1 percent, beating forecasts for 67.0 percent - which would have been unchanged. The Australian economy added 56,300 jobs last month, blowing away expec...
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Key Points Energy Transfer and Enterprise Products Partners are both designed to be slow-growing, boring businesses. They each have similar goals for distribution growth. Don't jump on the higher-yielding option until you know more about both of these midstream giants. 10 stocks we like better than Energy Transfer › Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) are two of...
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