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ASX 200 closed on its high up 78 points to 7386 (1.0%) with BHP the star on a Tesla deal for its nickel and the bank putting in a solid performance. Industrials firm but unspectacular and tech stocks under whelmed with a big hit to Z1P down 7.8% on a quarterly update. The All Tech Index up a miserly 0.4%. Lithium stcoks shrugged off any depression going skyward 
with ORE and GXY up around 10% and rare earths companies also doing well with LYC up 9%.

European markets expected to open around 0.5% to 1% firmer ahead of ECB meeting.