It's a flat day on the Australian share market. As fXXX energy shares all set gains in the mining sector. Right now, the ALL ORDS is maneging a gain of 3 points as is the ASX200 index. On Wall Street, sharp losses among house care stocks, all set gains in the technology sector leaving towards flat finish there is wealthy US financial markets. Looking at commodity prices now. And sXXX gold is retreating in a Asian session. Crude oil prices are again weaken. And the Australian dollar is pushing lower against the green back. The strugling department store MYER has impressed investers by saying first quater comparable sells has rizen nearly 4 percent. Adressing share holders at its annual general meeting the retailler said it has also seen a strong growth in its online clicking-collect offering. The company is to now targeting sells growth of about 3 percent until 2020. MYER has maintained its guidence for an underlined net profit of between 64 and 72 million dollars for the 2016 financial year. Its stock had recently plunged to a record low of 83 cents a share after the company's capital raising but it's on the way out today.

BHP Biliton has refused to commit to keeping its progressive divident policy beyond this February. BHP is reeling with the fatal sXXX mXXX and mine disasters in Brazail. The company's divident policy means it maintains or increes its divident in US dollars at half the payment. It hasn't cut the divident since 1998.xx