ASX 200 closes out solid recovery week with another gain as energy, uranium, and gold stocks star

It was a relatively quiet end to what will go down as a very good week for Aussie investors. Look at a chart of the S&P/ASX 200 and you'll see this week's gain couldn't have come at a better time, as the price of the benchmark was teetering in the wake of April's sharp correction.

Resources stocks were again in focus today, as increases in the prices of crude oil, natural gas, gold, and silver stoked big gains in each of those areas of the market. Uranium stocks bounced back nicely after their pullback yesterday.

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