Good morning and welcome to Thursday’s markets live blog, where we’ll bring you the latest price action and news on the ASX and beyond.
Wall Street has ended the session higher with Nasdaq up more than 1%.
The Dow Jones index gained 0.2 per cent, the S&P 500 advanced 0.7 per cent.
ASX futures were down 27 points or 0.3 per cent to 8,779 at 7:00am AEST.
At the same time, the Australian dollar was flat at 65.02 US cents.
Brent crude oil was down 1.2 per cent, trading at $US66.84 a barrel.
Spot gold dropped 0.4 per cent to $US3368.80.
Iron ore shed 0.5 per cent to $US101.95 a tonne.
