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Bullet partially dodged. We ended with a 35 point loss vs a 62 point opening fall. Higher metals and battery stocks helped limit losses.

Stronger prices of iron ore, copper, nickel, tin, and lithium helped the ASX resources sector to some healthy gains today.

Iron ore, aluminium, copper, nickel, lead, tin, zinc, gold, silver, lithium up. It doesn't get any better than this for our mining sector!

Gold's rally appears indestructible at the moment, and ASX gold stocks were again top of the pops today.

Aussie stocks slumped as a bearish lead from Wall St saw investors scramble to the sidelines prior to a major employment report due tonight.

Australia is the lucky country, and every now and then, the ASX is the lucky share market.

I mean, hands up if you actually thought the Federal Reserve in the US was going to cut rates three times this year? Yeah just as I thought!

All the important stuff that happened on the Australian stock market today, all in one place.

New record high, even better, it was broad-based (about 5 to 1 in terms of winners vs losers), and we closed near the high of the session.

The benchmark index closed the session on its high – usually a good sign there's more left in the tank, and gains were nicely broad-based.