ASX up 0.5% as miners rise, Premier boost dividend after record PJ sales - Sydney Morning Herald

The ASX 200 is up 0.5% higher this afternoon to 7421.9 with mining stocks doing the heavy lifting. Energy stocks also rose despite a fall in the oil price overnight.

Technology companies led a broad rally for stocks on Wall Street Thursday, reversing most of the major indexes losses from a day earlier and extending the markets recent run of uneven trading. The S… [+3886 chars]

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