Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Telecoms Services and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.18%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Galaxy Resources Ltd (ASX:GXY), which rose 4.20% or 0.055 points to trade at 1.365 at the close. Meanwhile, Hub24 Ltd (ASX:HUB) added 3.89% or 0.440 points to end at 11.740 and NRW Holdings Ltd (ASX:NWH) was up 3.51% or 0.080 points to 2.360 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Perpetual Ltd (ASX:PPT), which fell 5.85% or 2.450 points to trade at 39.410 at the close. Domino'S Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX:DMP) declined 4.27% or 1.720 points to end at 38.580 and Mayne Pharma Group Ltd (ASX:MYX) was down 3.96% or 0.020 points to 0.485.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 589 to 562 and 381 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 3.20% to 11.057.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.07% or 0.95 to $1414.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.22% or 0.13 to hit $59.45 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.06% or 0.04 to trade at $66.44 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.11% to 0.7032, while AUD/JPY rose 0.05% to 75.99.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 96.632.
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