Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.16% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were CSR Ltd (AX:CSR), which rose 8.61% or 0.310 points to trade at 3.910 at the close. Meanwhile, Regis Resources Ltd (AX:RRL) added 7.45% or 0.240 points to end at 3.460 and Resolute Mining Ltd (AX:RSG) was up 7.35% or 0.113 points to 1.643 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Webjet Ltd (AX:WEB), which fell 11.85% or 1.290 points to trade at 9.600 at the close. Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd (AX:CWY) declined 7.26% or 0.085 points to end at 1.085 and Nextdc Ltd (AX:NXT) was down 7.12% or 0.260 points to 3.390.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 773 to 304 and 288 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 12.97% to 18.364 a new 1-month high.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.41% or 5.25 to $1293.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.77% or 0.36 to hit $46.31 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.60% or 0.29 to trade at $47.85 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.26% to 0.7632, while AUD/JPY fell 0.61% to 79.20.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 97.61.