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The Australian Business Network

Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Thursday, June 19. The ASX 200 index is flat at 8534.10 points at 11.20am AEST on mining falls.

Ahead of its Juneteenth holiday on Thursday (Friday AEST), Wall Street's major indexes - S&P 500, Dow Jones and the technology-focused Nasdaq - all closed flat.

The global benchmark Brent crude is near $US76 per barrel and the US WTI is around $US73 per barrel.

Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is around $US105,200.

The Aussie dollar is trading around US65.05c.