ASX 200 live: Westpac quarterly profit jumps; Suncorp $400m buyback; earnings from Origin, Telstra ahead
Westpac hauls in $1.9bn quarterly profit. Future rate cuts in doubt after July jobs data. Telstra mobile weakness weighs. Temple & Webster lifts on guidance upgrade. Record profit drives Pro Medicus gains.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Thursday, August 14. The ASX 200 index closed 0.5 per cent higher to 8873.80 points after earlier reaching a new intraday peak of 8899.10 points.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and the tech-focused Nasdaq indexes notched record highs for the second day in a row with small gains. The Dow Jones index closed 1 per cent stronger.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin was trading around $121,900 at 5pm AEST after reaching a record around $US124,200.
The Aussie dollar was trading around US65.41c.
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