Australia stocks lower at close of trade; S&P/ASX 200 down 0.17%

Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Sydney, the declined 0.17%.

The best performers of the session on the were Mesoblast Ltd (ASX:), which rose 5.58% or 0.06 points to trade at 1.04 at the close. Meanwhile, Appen Ltd (ASX:) added 4.93% or 0.15 points to end at 3.19 and Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX:) was up 2.93% or 2.09 points to 73.50 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Silver Lake Resources Ltd (ASX:), which fell 5.53% or 0.07 points to trade at 1.11 at the close. Omni Bridgeway Ltd (ASX:) declined 4.53% or 0.12 points to end at 2.53 and Charter Hall Group (ASX:) was down 4.24% or 0.48 points to 10.83.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 789 to 473 and 429 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 2.48% to 12.56.

Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.12% or 2.35 to $2,030.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.94% or 0.69 to hit $72.47 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.95% or 0.73 to trade at $76.28 a barrel.

AUD/USD was unchanged 0.33% to 0.68, while AUD/JPY fell 0.50% to 91.15.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 101.33.