Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Telecoms Services and Gold sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.71%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were James Hardie Industries PLC (AX:JHX), which rose 4.01% or 0.900 points to trade at 23.350 at the close. Meanwhile, Blackmores Ltd (AX:BKL) added 2.10% or 2.62 points to end at 127.62 and Asaleo Care (AX:AHY) was up 2.22% or 0.030 points to 1.380 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Altium Ltd (AX:ALU), which fell 7.48% or 1.710 points to trade at 21.160 at the close. Technology One Ltd (AX:TNE) declined 6.06% or 0.300 points to end at 4.650 and G8 Education Ltd (AX:GEM) was down 4.32% or 0.115 points to 2.545.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 757 to 485 and 368 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 13.18% to 13.466 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.02% or 0.30 to $1290.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.36% or 0.26 to hit $72.61 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.32% or 0.25 to trade at $79.47 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.12% to 0.7590, while AUD/JPY rose 0.01% to 84.20.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 93.44.
