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Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Monday, April 24. The Australian sharemarket ends mostly unchanged as investors hedge their bets ahead of Wednesday's crucial March quarter inflation data.
The S&P/ASX 200 index fell by 8.40 points, or by 0.1 per cent, to close at 7322.
Wall Street is expected to open lower with futures tied to the Dow Jones down by 0.4 per cent and off 0.5 per cent for the Nasdaq and S&P 500.
The dollar was near US66.75c at the close.
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