Australian Stock Market Report – Midday 3-22-13

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MID-SESSION REPORT

(12.10pm AEDT)

The Australian share market is trading higher at lunchtime, despite a negative start impacted by more falls on European and US share markets overnight.

Investors in the US and Europe sold out of stocks as Cyprus's president worked on a new plan to obtain a European bailout.

Financial stocks are driving the local gains, with Westpac ( WBC ) the strongest out of the big four banks.

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