Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the declined 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the were Omni Bridgeway Ltd (ASX:), which rose 49.48% or 0.48 points to trade at 1.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Cromwell Property Group (ASX:) added 12.16% or 0.05 points to end at 0.41 and Kogan.com Ltd (ASX:) was up 9.11% or 0.51 points to 6.11 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Insignia Financial Ltd (ASX:), which fell 4.17% or 0.15 points to trade at 3.45 at the close. Nickel Mines Ltd (ASX:) declined 3.51% or 0.03 points to end at 0.82 and St Barbara Ltd (ASX:) was down 1.61% or 0.01 points to 0.31.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 566 to 531 and 461 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 3.91% to 9.77 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.06% or 1.55 to $2,663.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.51% or 0.36 to hit $69.72 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $73.27 a barrel.
AUD/USD was unchanged 0.34% to 0.63, while AUD/JPY fell 0.39% to 96.88.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 106.62.
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