Tech stocks outstripped the broader market and investors had a solid appetite for financials and energy stocks.

ASX cheers France, but miners slide

Shares started a shortened week on the front foot, buoyed by Sunday's French election round one results, though a slipping iron ore price weighed on miners.

No poll bump for PM in visa changes

Thanks largely to Malcolm Turnbull citing a run of 30 successive negative Newspolls as a key reason for necking Tony Abbott, each poll now a...