June 21 (Reuters) - Australian shares are set to open
slightly higher on Thursday, tracking improving sentiment on
Wall Street as large-cap tech and consumer discretionary stocks
helped lift the Nasdaq to a record close.
Aussie energy stocks stand to gain from a fall in U.S. crude
inventories last week which sent crude futures higher.
The local share price index futures rose 0.2
percent, a 21.4-point premium to the underlying S&P/ASX 200
index close. The benchmark climbed 1.2 percent on
Wednesday.
New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index rose 0.3
percent in early trade.
(Reporting by Nikhil Kurian Nainan in Bengaluru
Editing by James Dalgleish)