The mining sector led gainers, two sectors were flat and energy finished lower. -AAP Image
The Australian share market has broken its longest weekly losing streak since the global financial crisis and reached a three-week peak in the process, but has finished the month in the red.
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The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed Friday up 55.5 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 7,177.8, while the All Ordinaries rose 60.9 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 7,373.3.
For the week the ASX200 was up 3.2 per cent, its best weekly gain since the last week of November. But it finished March 1.1 per cent lower than it started the month.
The Australian dollar was buying 67.12 US cents, from 66.88 US cents at Thursday's ASX close.
