Reuters: Hot Stocks: Australia shares edge down 0.1 percent, look to local earnings

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Australia shares edge down 0.1 percent, look to local earnings Feb 18th 2013, 23:21 Tweet Share this Email Print Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:21pm EST (Updates to open) SYDNEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares edged down 0.1 percent on Tuesday on a fall in metals prices, with investors focusing on local corporate earnings for direction after a three-month rally that has taken the market to 4-1/2 year highs. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index shed 6.0 points to to 5,057.4 by 2317 GMT. The index rose 0.6 percent on Monday. New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 index rose O.2 percent to 4,222.6 in early trade. (Reporting By Maggie Lu Yueyang; Editing by Eric Meijer) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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