The ASX hits 6000 but it gets tougher from here

By Scott Phillips
Updated December 1 2017 - 9:43am, first published November 7 2017 - 5:47pm
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We humans love round numbers. No one was excited when the four-minute-and-one-second mile barrier was broken. We don't celebrate a batsman who scores 99. And we're so attuned to them when we shop that retailers know $1.99 is far more likely to make us buy, compared to the nice, round - and mentally much higher - $2 mark.

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