The Australian market is taking lead from Wall Street?s session overnight to trade higher after lunchtime as a surge in tech and energy stocks boost the key index, with energy stocks benefitting from Brent Crude oil prices hitting their highest level since early November. In tech news, Afterpay is rallying today after the Bank of Spain approved Block?s acquisition of Afterpay by way of scheme arrangement, now making the scheme fully unconditional and able to be implemented without further shareholder or court approval. A spotlight on Liontown Resources as the lithium developer is rallying today after announcing it has signed its first off-take agreement with South Korean-based premier battery manufacturer, LG Energy Solution. A pair of Los Angeles police officers have been fired after they were caught chasing Pokemon rather than responding to a shop nearby following a review of the police car?s dash-cam footage.
VIDEO: Afterpay rallies after the Bank of Spain approves Block acquisition of Afterpay
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