Australia shares inch up on oil stocks, NZ hits record in holiday-thinned trade <!-- no image --> <div>Australian shares inched marginally higher on Tuesday in thin pre-Christmas trading, with the benchmark helped by a rise in energy stocks on improved oil prices.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=svtjpC4Li9Y:tu4kOMo88OI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=svtjpC4Li9Y:tu4kOMo88OI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=svtjpC4Li9Y:tu4kOMo88OI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=svtjpC4Li9Y:tu4kOMo88OI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=svtjpC4Li9Y:tu4kOMo88OI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/svtjpC4Li9Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters