Australia Shares up on materials

Australian equity market finished session higher on Thursday, 23 March 2017, snapping three straight days of losses, buoyed by the materials sector and gains from miner BHP Billiton. The market also found support from new bilateral agreements on beef exports, energy and security, which were expected to be signed between Australia and China during a four-day visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 0.4%, or 23.49 points, at 5,708. Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 561 to 460 and 343 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 1.04% to 12.257.

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