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SYDNEY, Dec 3 Asia Pulse - The Australian sharemarket has opened higher on a positive US lead and higher base metal prices.
Big falls in the prices of gold and oil hurt energy stocks and gold miners.
New gaming group Crown Ltd got off to a flying start, but the other part of James Packer's empire, Consolidated Media Holdings, lost ground.
At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 20.3 points higher, at 6553.4, while the All Ordinaries had gained 22.8 points to 6616.4.
On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index rose six points to 6574.
"We've opened kind of in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, STOCKS - AUSTRALIAN INDEX OPENS HIGHER - DEC 3, 2007.