
Australia's share market has posted its best-ever close as confidence around company earnings and future interest rate cuts washed out global growth concerns.
The S&P/ASX200 surged 106.7 points higher, up 1.23 per cent, to 8,770.4, while the broader All Ordinaries shot 106.8 points higher, or 1.20 per cent, to 9,028.8.