ASX 200 live: Qantas dividends back; liquor woes hit Coles results, Chalmers clears Qatar's Virgin buy-in
Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance owed $500m from Whyalla collapse. Business investment unexpectedly falls in December quarter. Qantas rewards investors with dividend. Jobs to go as Oceania Glass Dandenong shuts.
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Thursday, February 27. The ASX 200 index has closed up 0.3 per cent to 8268.2 points, driven by consumer-exposed stocks including Coles, Medibank and Eagers Automotive.
Industrials and materials also found support. However, tech and health cares stocks lost ground.
Wall Street's S&P 500 closed flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq index eked out a 0.3 per cent gain, while the Dow Jones shed 0.4 per cent.
Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is below $US85,000.
The Aussie dollar is trading around US62.89c.
Originally published as ASX 200 live: Qantas dividends back; liquor woes hit Coles results, Chalmers clears Qatar's Virgin buy-in
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