Afternoon trading June 13

Thanks @shovel40, @Fiji1 and morning crew.

Half-time wrap:

Two days of US gains across the Australian long weekend failed to inspire buying interest on the ASX as commodity price weakness weighed on the heavily-weighted resource stocks.

The ASX 200 reached the halfway mark less than a point or 0.01% in the red. A second day of gains for the tech sector, plus strength in defensives, barely offset solid declines in the likes of Santos, Woodside, Newcrest, Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue. Other drags included Domino's Pizza, Bellevue Gold and Nickel Industries.

US equity futures idled ahead of tonight's inflation report and tomorrow night's interest rate decision. S&P 500 futures inched up 0.08%.

Personal trading: Couple of pips from FFF, but not enough of a fill at the low for decent bucks. BUR coming good from last week.