Wednesday night, after the market closed, Australian stocks went up because A-REITs, utilities, and gold all went up.
At the end of the day in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 went up by 0.18%.
Costa Group Holdings Ltd (ASX:CGC) performed the best on the S&P/ASX 200, rising 10.76% or 0.24 points to trade at $2.47 at the end of the day.In late trade, Westgold Resources Ltd (ASX:WGX) went up 8.00% or 0.06 points to end at 0.81, and Kogan.com Ltd (ASX:KGN) went up 6.38% or 0.21 points to 3.50 in late trade.
Codan Ltd (ASX:CDA), which dropped 20.70% or 1.01 points to close at 3.87, did the worst of the day’s stocks. At the same time, Medibank Private Ltd (ASX:MPL) fell 18.12%, or 0.63 points, to end at $2.87, and Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX:WHC) fell 8.1%, or 0.84 points, to $9.52.
On the Sydney Stock Exchange, there were 684 stocks that went up, 583 that went down, and 361 that stayed the same.
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Codan Ltd (ASX:CDA) shares fell to their lowest point in three years, down 20.70% or 1.01 to 3.87. Medibank Private Ltd (ASX: MPL) shares fell to a 52-week low of $2.87, down 18.12% or $0.63.
The implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, which is measured by the S&P/ASX 200 VIX, went down by 1.88% to 18.34.
Gold Futures for December delivery went up 0.99%, or $16.45, to $1,674.45 per troy ounce. Crude oil for December delivery fell 0.74 percent, or $0.63 per barrel, to $84.69 per barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.90 percent, or $0.83 per barrel, to $90.91 per barrel.
The AUD/USD rose 1.17 percent to 0.65, while the AUD/JPY rose 0.65 percent to 95.19.
At 110.12, the US Dollar Index Futures were down 0.64 %.