Australian shares traded higher at midday with solid gains in financial and energy stocks as local investors shrugged off a surge in coronavirus cases on hopes the Omicron variant is less severe. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.

Australian shares traded higher at midday with solid gains in financial and energy stocks as local investors shrugged off a surge in coronavirus cases on hopes the Omicron variant is less severe. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.
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