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The lifters:Tyro Payments up 27.9 per cent after rejecting a takeover bid led by Sydney-based Potentia Capital;family tracking software Life 360 gained 16.4 per cent,recovering to a new 20-day high;and cloud company Megaport up 12.1 per cent as IT stocks led the gains.

The laggards:Woodside Energy down 5.5 per cent after going ex-dividend;Perpetual Ltd down 0.5 per cent,also trading without rights to its dividend;and Santos down 0.5 per cent on a poor day for energy stocks.

The lowdown:Investors reacted positively to Lowe’s indication rate rises had hit a peak as the local bourse recovered fromWednesday’s losses to record its best session in seven weeks.

The energy sector was the only category to finish in the red,falling broadly as US crude oil prices slid 5.7 per cent and Brent,the international benchmark,shed 5.5 per cent.

Chief investment officer at WealthLander Jerome Lander said while the dip in oil prices hurt energy stocks,it was a sign of optimism for other sectors.

“The rest of the market took some optimism from it in the sense that there may be less short-term inflation pressure as a result,and therefore less pressure on interest rates,” he said.

Shares in payments provider Tyro skyrocketed by more than 25 per cent after the payments providerrejected an unsolicited takeover bid from a consortium of private equity investors led by Sydney-based Potentia Capital.

The bid,which valued the equity in Tyro at about $660 million,was pitched at a 30 per cent premium of $1.27 a share.

The consortium has won the conditional support of Tyro’s biggest shareholder,Mike Cannon-Brookes’ investment company Grok Ventures,which owns 12.5 per cent of Tyro. However,Grok could potentially support a higher offer if one emerged.

Elsewhere,Link shares jumped as much as 7 per cent in morning trade after the ACCC approved the financial software company’s $2.5 billion takeover by Canadian firm Dye&Durham.

Woodside Energy shed about 6 per cent without its $1.59 dividend,while Perpetual and ASX Ltd stocks also ended the day in the red after going ex-dividend.

On Wall Street,the S&P 500 rose 1.8 per cent on Wednesday,its biggest single-day gain in four weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.4 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 2.1 per cent,taking all three indexes into the green for the week,a welcome respite for traders after gains from July and early August were erased in recent weeks.

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Quote of the day: “If people keep their money in their pocket because of interest rates,then I think we are going to be in good shape.” Australia Post boss Paul Grahamsaid household spending was a big unknown in the lead-up to festive spending,but Australians should start planning their online Christmas shopping “now”.

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With Clancy Yeates and AP

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