End of Day – Wed 13 Jul

•  ASX 200 closed up 15 to 6605 (0.2%) as a late afternoon charge helped. A mixed quiet session as we await the US CPI release tonight. Banks firmed slightly with the Big Bank Basket up to $165.67 (0.7%). CBA the star up 1.1% with MQG doing well up 2.2%. MFG slightly higher too up 2.9%. Insurers flat with IAG down 1.1%. Industrials higher with TLS up 1.0%, WES up 1.2%. GMG rose 2.4% with REITS flat behind it. Tech stocks slightly better with WTC up 1.3% and XRO up 1.3% as ANZ indicates interest in MYOB. QAN rallying on the fall in oil price up 4.3% and TCL better again up 1.0%. Resources were mixed, BHP fell 1.4% with RIO off 1.4%, lithium stocks better as VUL ran 7.1%, PLS up 5.4 % and IGO up 1.1%. Oil and gas stocks eased as crude prices fell, STO down 1.3% and WDS off 2.9%. Coal stocks once again doing well, WHC up 4.5% and NHC up 3.1%.
•  In corporate news, CHN up 3.7% on identifying new Ni-Cu-PGE targets at Thor. KMD issued an update rising 0.5% as winter has been good. In economic news, the RBNZ went hard again by 50bps to 2.5%. Asian markets better across the board with 10-year yields easing to 3.37%. 

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