Reuters: Hot Stocks: Australia shares up 0.2 pct; Linc Energy jumps 7 percent

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Australia shares up 0.2 pct; Linc Energy jumps 7 percent Jan 8th 2013, 01:08 Tweet Share this Email Print Mon Jan 7, 2013 8:08pm EST (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 0.2 percent in late morning trade on Tuesday, with gains limited as miners and banks backed off amid investor concerns about U.S. corporate earnings and debt ceiling talks. BHP Billiton Ltd was up 0.1 percent, paring early gains, while Rio Tinto Ltd fell 1.3 percent. "There is not a huge conviction in the market at the moment," said Martin Lakos, a division director at Macquarie Private Wealth, pointing to looming U.S. talks to raise the country's politically sensitive debt ceiling. "Investors are going to be still cautious leading up to the 28th of February deadline for the debt ceiling negotiations," he said. The S&P/ASX 200 index was 7.8 points higher at 4,725.1 by 0044 GMT. It slipped 0.1 percent to 4,717.3 on Monday. Major banks pulled back from gains on new Basel liquidity rules, with the biggest lender Commonwealth Bank of Australia down 1.1 percent. Westpac Banking Corp bucked the trend to add 0.7 percent. Energy stocks gained on higher oil prices, with the country's biggest oil producer Woodside petroleum Ltd rising 1.1 percent. Defensive stocks were generally higher. Flagship telecommunications provider Telstra climbed 1.0 percent, and blood products producer CSL Ltd was up 0.3 percent. New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 index was up 1.1 points to 4,085.7. STOCKS ON THE MOVE * Oil and gas producer Linc Energy Ltd soared 7.4 percent after it said it broke an oil production milestone of 6,000 barrels per day. (0049 GMT) * Coal seam gas producer Westside Corp Ltd added 1.2 percent after it said it was continuing discussions with a party which submitted a conditional and confidential takeover proposal last November. (0046 GMT) (Reporting By Maggie Lu Yueyang; Editing by Richard Pullin) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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