Sept 23 (Reuters) - Australian shares advanced for a fourth straight session on Friday, tracking Wall Street, encouraged by the U.S. Federal Reserve's increasingly cautious approach to future interest rate hikes.
The local share price index futures YAPcm1 rose 0.5 percent, or 27 points to 5,381, a 6.5-point premium to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO close. The benchmark is on track for a weekly gain, snapping five weeks of losses.
New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index .NZ50 was up 0.2 percent at 2210 GMT.
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