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The S&P/ASX 200 index ended 0.8 per cent higher at 6,827.10, after rising as much as 1.3 per cent earlier in the day - its biggest intraday percentage gain since March 8. The benchmark closed 0.1 per cent higher on Monday.
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March 16 (Reuters) - Australian shares finished nearly 1%
higher on Tuesday to notch their best session in more than a
week, as the benchmark tracked overnight gains on Wall Street,
while lower U.S. bond yields prompted heavy buying in healthcare
and technology stocks.
The S&P/ASX 200 index ended 0.8% higher at 6,827.10,
after rising as much as 1.3% earlier in the day - its biggest
intraday percentage gain since March 8. The benchmark closed
0.1% higher on Monday.
Major Wall Street indexes closed at record highs in the
previous session, as investors eyed an economic recovery from
MSCI s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.5% to just shy of a record high, led by jumps of more than 1.5% in South Korea s chipmaker-heavy Kospi and Australia s miner-and-bank heavy ASX 200., , global markets, global shared services survey, COVID-19, Asia-Pacific shares, msci index