ASX up 0.7 per cent at open as banks post gains

Summary

• The ASX200 was up 0.69 per cent at 10:15am to 6105. 
• Wall Street rallied again overnight, with the S&P 500 closing higher for the ninth time in 10 sessions 
• Iron ore is up 2.1% to $US127.31 a tonne, while spot gold retreated 1.4% to $US1943.58 an ounce
• Ex-dividend stocks today include Altium, Appen, BHP, Lifestyle Communities, nib Holdings, Perpetual, Pinnacle, Ramsay Health Care, Select Harvests, and Spark Infrastructure