By Daniel Ziffer

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Hello, I’m Daniel Ziffer from the ABC business team and I’ll be taking you through the morning on our business, finance and economics blog.

Overnight, Wall Street indices were all positive.

The blue-chip Dow Jones of 30 mega-companies like Boeing and Visa was +0.1% to 45,883 points.

The broader S&P 500, which covers 500 of the largest listed companies in theUS, was +0.5% to 6,615 points — a record close.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq was +0.9% to 22,348 points — another record close.

These numbers are live, and trading is continuing, we’ll update you when there’s a firm closing price.

Our market is set to jump, with the ASX 200 futures index tipping a lift of +1% or 91 points to 8,940 points.

There’s lots to get to, all of it news, analysis and information and none of it financial advice.

Let’s get started!