Australian shares lower in late trade; The S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.40% Per Investing.com
Investing.com – Australian stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in , and sectors led shares lower.
Finally in Sydney, it was down 0.40%.
The musicians who performed best in the session were Appen Ltd (ASX:), which was up 8.47% or 0.16 points to trade at 2.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX:) added 4.09% or 1.50 points to end at 38.20 and Tabcorp Holdings Ltd (ASX:) was up 2.15% or 0.01 points to 0.47 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were St Barbara Ltd (ASX:), which fell 26.09% or 0.12 points to trade at 0.34 at the close. Domino’S Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX:) was down 6.26% or 2.11 points to end at 31.60 and Magellan Financial Group Ltd (ASX:) was down 2.64% or 0.28 points to 10.34 .
Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 630 to 400 and 476 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, rose 2.58% to 13.66.
Gold futures for December delivery fell 0.07% or 1.80 to $2,744.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodity trading, crude oil for December delivery rose 0.08% or 0.06 to $71.53 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $75.16 a barrel.
AUD/USD was unchanged at 0.22% to 0.66, while AUD/JPY rose 0.42% to 100.61.
US Dollar Index Futures were up 0.03% at 103.82.
