- ASX200 gains 0.91% to start the week at 6868.90 points.
- Pfizer vaccine arrives in Australia, rollout to start Monday.
- Nissan denies working on Apple autonomous cars after initial talks.
The Australian market closed Monday?s session 0.91% higher at 6868.90 as Nearmap and Zip Co soar 18.98% and 16.90%, respectively.
Tech stocks finished the session 1% higher, driven by Nearmap?s surge. Afterpay gained 1.59%, Appen added 2.38% and Wisetech global closed 2.07% higher.
Bitcoin is trading around US$46,800 at 5:00pm AEDT, down 4.31% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum is down 6.3% at US$1730.26.
Making headlines, the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are set to be administered to Australians from next Monday. A shipment has arrived in Australia and will be tested by the Therapeutic Goods Administration over the next week before 80,000 doses are released.
In tech news, Australian-based influencer platform Tribe is planning to list on the ASX this year after closing a AUD$5.5M pre-IPO funding round, the AFR reports.
Pandemic winner Domino?s Pizza has topped AUD$100/share for the first time after Goldman Sachs said it expected the company to deliver a full-year adjusted EBITDA of AUD$442.4M on Wednesday.
And Japanese automaker Nissan has dismissed reports it's working with Apple on an autonomous car, saying it was approached by Apple but talks didn?t progress to a senior level after Apple requested its branding on the cars.