Australian shares make it six in a row after last-minute rally

By Stephen Cauchi
Updated October 21 2014 - 6:08pm, first published 5:10pm

Shares managed a last-gasp gain - making it six straight sessions of rises - after banks sunk an early rally, with miners buoyed by better-than-expected Chinese economic data.

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