Newmont, Whitehaven quarterly updates; Macquarie patience 'running thinner'
Newmont hauls higher gold grades at Cadia mine in NSW. Whitehaven beats coal guidance as sales jump. Analysts note Macquarie's 'deja vu' on earnings miss. Rich-lister's latest buy-in caught up in ICAC NSW probe.
That's all from the Trading Day blog for Friday, July 25. The ASX 200 index closed up 0.5 per cent at 8666.9 points with losses among the heavyweight miners and banks weighing.
Wall Street's Dow Jones index fell 0.7 per cent, but the S&P 500 index and technology-focused Nasdaq rose to record highs on gains of 0.1 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is near $US115,400.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US65.86c.
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