⁍ Australian shares are set to open higher on Thursday.
⁍ The local share price index futures YAPcm1 rose 0.4% at 21:19 GMT.
⁍ The benchmark rose 1.3% on Wednesday.
– Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday, with China’s Shanghai Composite up 1.2% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng up 1.2% in the first minutes of trading, per the AP. US stock futures also were higher, with the Dow up 100 points, or 0.4%, at 24,414, and the S&P 500 up 10 points, or 0.4%, at 2,669, per MarketWatch.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/australia-stocks-int/australia-shares-set-to-open-higher-on-revived-us-stimulus-hopes-idUSKBN26S3GW