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ASX 200 closes up 18 to 7082 in quiet narrow range trading. Mining stocks gained as production reports dropped and gold miners found some friends again. BHP rose 0.9% whilst FMG was relatively unchanged on production numbers showing on track for record shipments. Banks were a little nervous ahead of next week's results and APT jumped 3.5% on a NZ deal. The index is now up 3.7% for the month. President Biden's speech tickled US futures slightly higher and we followed with a muted response.