Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Metals & Mining, Healthcare and Resources sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Sirtex Medical Ltd (ASX:SRX), which rose 35.14% or 7.020 points to trade at 27.000 at the close. Meanwhile, ALS Ltd (ASX:ALQ) added 7.25% or 0.430 points to end at 6.360 and G.U.D. Holdings Ltd (ASX:GUD) was up 6.14% or 0.510 points to 8.810 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Resmed Inc (ASX:RMD), which fell 18.42% or 1.520 points to trade at 6.730 at the close. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (ASX:FMG) declined 7.97% or 0.200 points to end at 2.310 and Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX:MIN) was down 6.56% or 0.470 points to 6.690.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 505 to 489 and 198 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 1.60% to 16.719.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.03% or 0.40 to $1217.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.23% or 0.14 to hit $60.36 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.11% or 0.07 to trade at $67.19 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.20% to 0.8127, while AUD/JPY rose 0.04% to 96.69.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.41% at 93.36.