ASX 200 live: Hrdlicka to lead Endeavour; Woodside's $27bn US bet; MinRes surges

Billionaire Chris Ellison-led mining giant a top gainer. ASX 200 rebound 'looks vulnerable': UBS. Endeavour taps former Virgin fix-it CEO. Tripp's Betr lobs 'funded' bid for PointsBet. 

ASX investors are scanning production updates by the major miners on Tuesday ahead of a busy week of economic and corporate updates at home and overseas.

Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Tuesday, April 29. The ASX 200 index closed up 0.9 per cent at  a two-month high close of 8070.6 points with all sectors except consumer staples in the green.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 index closed 0.1 per cent higher and the Dow Jones index gained 0.3 per cent, but the technology-focused Nasdaq dipped 0.1 per cent ahead of quarterly results this week from Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is just below $US95,000.

The Aussie dollar is trading around US64.25c ahead of the release of Australia's March quarter inflation report on Wednesday.

Originally published as ASX 200 live: Hrdlicka to lead Endeavour; Woodside's $27bn US bet; MinRes surges