Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Energy and Gold sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Monadelphous Group Ltd (ASX:MND), which rose 5.49% or 0.90 points to trade at 17.28 at the close. Meanwhile, AMP Ltd (ASX:AMP) added 4.23% or 0.080 points to end at 1.970 and NRW Holdings Ltd (ASX:NWH) was up 3.57% or 0.10 points to 2.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Altium Ltd (ASX:ALU), which fell 7.91% or 3.37 points to trade at 39.26 at the close. oOh!Media Ltd (ASX:OML) declined 5.79% or 0.18 points to end at 2.93 and Bendigo And Adelaide Bank Ltd (ASX:BEN) was down 5.58% or 0.59 points to 9.98.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 659 to 471 and 364 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 1.80% to 12.156.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.14% or 2.15 to $1588.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.65% or 0.34 to hit $51.98 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.97% or 0.56 to trade at $57.11 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.31% to 0.6693, while AUD/JPY fell 0.40% to 73.47.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 99.082.