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ASX pushed higher by soaring gold miners

Stephen CauchiBusiness reporter
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Repercussions from Friday's night's shockingly low US jobs number hit the Australian sharemarket on Monday, with the sharp plunge in the US dollar inspiring a wave of buying in gold stocks and the mining sector generally.

The US economy created the fewest number of jobs in more than five-and-a-half years in May as manufacturing and construction employment fell sharply.

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