ASX 200 live: Meta settles Aus privacy breach case; Star taps Lendlease veteran as CFO; Westpac CFO to exit; PEXA's new CEO
Data#3 down after flagging Microsoft hit. PEXA soars on change of guard. BlueScope, BHP and Rio Tinto pick site for smelting pilot plant. House prices to stall next year: HSBC. Meta settles Aus privacy breach case.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Tuesday, December 17. The ASX 200 index closed 0.8 per cent higher to 8312 points.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 index rose 0.4 per cent and the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite surged 1.2 per cent to a new record, led by gains by Tesla and Google parent Alphabet. But the Dow Jones index closed 0.3 per cent lower.
Bitcoin is above $US106,000.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US63.51c at 5pm AEDT.
Originally published as ASX 200 live: Meta settles Aus privacy breach case; Star taps Lendlease veteran as CFO; Westpac CFO to exit; PEXA's new CEO
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