ASX 200 flat; Pilbara, lithium stocks rise; Nanosonics plunges; record Woodside output
Nanosonics tumbles. Pilbara lifts as cuts capital spending. Miners and lithium stocks up. Kogan jumps on earnings beat. Rio's $1bn solar power deal. Newmark up on BWP merger.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Wednesday, January 24. The ASX 200 index closed flat, up slightly to 7,519.20 points. The S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to a record high close in a mixed Wall Street session.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US65.73c at 5.15pm AEDT.
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