oct 12 reuters  australian shares were largely unchanged on tuesday as gains in heavyweight miners on the back of robust iron ore prices offset a slide in technology and financial stocks the spasx 200 index was up 005 at 73032 points at 2327 gmt the benchmark slipped to 03 at close on monday australia’s financial subindex fell as much as 05 with lender westpac banking corp losing up to 12 after flagging a a13 billion 956 million profit hit in the second half the country’s secondlargest lender by market capitalisation said it would take the oneoff charge after its institutional banking unit quit energy trading among other reasons the rest of australia’s ‘big four’ banks  national australia bank ltd australia and new zealand banking group and commonwealth bank of australia  were down between 04 and 06 tech stocks fell for a second straight day slipping as much as 13 after major wall street indices closed lower overnight market darling afterpay lost the most on the subindex falling as much as 26 to its lowest levels since oct 5 balancing the slide aussie miners climbed 16 in their fourth straight session of gains as iron ore prices soared on supply fears bhp group rose as much as 14 while rio tinto and fortescue metals gained up to 18 and 19 respectively energy stocks inched 05 higher with oil search adding 12 as oil prices rallied on surging demand across the tasman sea new zealand’s benchmark spnzx 50 index fell for a sixth consecutive session losing 03 with cancer diagnostics firm pacific edge dipping about 21 1  13611 australian dollars reporting by savyata mishra in bengaluru editing by ramakrishnan m