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Article: STOCKS - AUSTRALIAN BOURSE ENDS AT RECORD HIGH - DEC 29, 2006.
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- December 29, 2006
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PERTH, Dec 29 Asia Pulse - The Australian bourse ended the year at a record high with resources sector, particularly uranium stocks, driving the bourse upwards. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 9.4 points higher at a record 5669.9, up 19 per cent over the year.
The all ordinaries gained 10.3 points to also close at a record 5644.3, up 19.8 per cent.
At 1426 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange the March share price index contract was down five points at 5649, on a volume of 8,579 contracts.
ABN AMRO Morgans adviser Lisa Jarvis the uranium sector had a positive day after Prime Minister John Howard said nuclear power was part of the ...