Thursday night, after the market closed, Australia’s stocks went down because the Gold, Metals & Mining, and Materials sectors lost value.
At the end of the day in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 fell by 1.84 percent.
Perpetual Ltd (ASX:PPT), which rose 7.14% or 1.92 points to close at 28.82 on the S&P/ASX 200, did the best over the course of the day. Downer Edi Ltd (ASX:DOW) went up 5.25 percent, or 0.24 points, to close at 4.81, and A2 Milk Company Ltd (ASX:A2M) went up 4.17 percent, or 0.22 points, to finish at 5.49.
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX:DMP), which fell 11.71% or 7.03 points to 52.98 at the end of the session, was the worst performer. Pendal Group Ltd (ASX:PDL) fell 10.67% or 0.54 points to end at 4.52, and Lend Lease Group (ASX:LLC) fell 8.73% or 0.75 points to 7.84.
On the Sydney Stock Exchange, there were 858 stocks that went down, 428 that went up, and 329 that stayed the same.
The implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, which is measured by the S&P/ASX 200 VIX, went up by 3.97% to 15.93.
Gold Futures for December delivery went down 1.12%, or $18.50, to $1,631.50 per troy ounce. In other commodity trading, the price of Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.11 percent, or $1.00, to $89 per barrel, while the price of Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.88 percent, or $0.85, to $95.31 per barrel.
AUD/USD stayed the same at 0.63, while AUD/JPY went down by 0.5% to 93.39.
At 112.41, the US Dollar Index Futures were up 1.06%.
