© Reuters. Australia stocks lower at close of trade; S&P/ASX 200 down 0.84%Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the lost 0.84%.
The best performers of the session on the were Computershare Ltd. (ASX:), which rose 4.61% or 0.63 points to trade at 14.29 at the close. Meanwhile, Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd (ASX:) added 4.02% or 0.090 points to end at 2.330 and Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX:) was up 3.48% or 0.055 points to 1.635 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were IGO Ltd (ASX:), which fell 7.91% or 0.560 points to trade at 6.520 at the close. Pointsbet Holdings Ltd (ASX:) declined 6.27% or 0.92 points to end at 13.75 and Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX:) was down 6.23% or 8.080 points to 121.670.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 1044 to 336 and 325 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 1.34% to 16.303.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.12% or 2.10 to $1717.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.95% or 0.58 to hit $61.86 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.65 to trade at $64.72 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.43% to 0.7809, while AUD/JPY rose 0.58% to 83.66.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 91.015.
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