(Reuters) - Australian shares are poised to snap a run of three sessions of declines and edge higher on Monday, mirroring Wall Street which closed on an upbeat note in the last session, and also driven by a jump in commodity and oil prices.
The local share price index futures <YAPcm1> rose 0.2 percent, or 12 points, to 5,924, a 4.9-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index <.AXJO> close. The benchmark lost 0.7 percent on Friday.
New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index <.NZ50> inched up 0.1 percent in early trade.
(Reporting by Christina Martin in Bengaluru; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
