: The price of oil rose 6 per cent overnight, boosting energy stocks, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Woodside rose 90 cents to $30, while Oil Search lifted 15 cents to $7.58 and Santos was up 11 cents to $5.00. The All Ordinaries finished the day at 5171, rising 47 points, while the benchmark ASX 200 lifted the same amount to 5,146. In the mining sector, Rio Tinto rose 70 cents to $52.01, while BHP was up 68 cents to $24.65. Elsewhere across the market, stocks in Blackmores went gangbusters, lifting $6.80 to $136.80 - 300 per cent higher than at the start of this year. The banks did reasonably well with CBA lifting 18 cents to $75.53, Westpac up 25 cents to $31.32, ANZ up 30 cents to $28.18 and NAB up 40 cents to $30.91.
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