Australian shares edge up buoyed by miners, energy firms <!-- no image --> <div>Australian shares inched up on Monday as stronger resource prices supported energy and mining stocks, but expectations for a smaller-than-expected U.S. rate cut curbed investor optimism.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=gXKa1d6fSBM:WEXSwd06IJE: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=gXKa1d6fSBM:WEXSwd06IJE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=gXKa1d6fSBM:WEXSwd06IJE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=gXKa1d6fSBM:WEXSwd06IJE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=gXKa1d6fSBM:WEXSwd06IJE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/gXKa1d6fSBM" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters