Published on 09/03/2026 at 02:23 am EDT
(MT Newswires) -- Australian shares rose on Thursday, tracking gains on Wall Street
The S&P/ASX 200 Index gained 0.46%, or 41.70 points, to close at 9,020.10.
Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite each rose 0.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6%.
Brent crude oil futures continued to trade around $95 per barrel as the US and Iran continued hostilities.
On the domestic front, the S&P Global Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index edged down to 53.2 in August from 53.6 in July, but continued to signal a "solid" expansion in business activity.
Australia's goods balance recorded a seasonally adjusted surplus of AU$1.92 billion in July, up from AU$2.34 billion in June, according to data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In company news, Regis Healthcare said the Australian Government's 2.55% increase in the Australian National Aged Care Classification starting price to AU$303.19 from AU$295.64 per resident per day from Oct. 1 falls well short of sector cost inflation. Its shares closed down 25%.
Santoscommenced seawater injection at the Nanushuk Drillsite-B of its Pikka oil project on Alaska's North Slope, with injection rates reaching around 40,000 barrels per day following successful milestone testing.
Eureka Group Holdingsentered into contracts with Ingenia Communities to acquire six lifestyle and mixed-use communities in New South Wales comprising 953 sites for AU$123.8 million.

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