The local market received an injection of optimism today in the form of news that Moderna's COVID-19 trials were showing 'promising' results. Talk about deja vu all over again! Anyway, the ASX closed up 2% - also helped by a positive lead from Wall St - with miners, tech and healthcare leading the way. The optimism also flowed into the Aussie dollar, which rallied up to that US70 cent mark that it's been threatening to punch through for so long. ABS unemployment numbers out tomorrow but, as Scutty says, don't expect too much response from the market, given that the data is now a month old so doesn't include the effect of the lockdown in Melbourne or increasing COVID numbers in Sydney.

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