Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Gold, IT and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Corporate Travel Managment Ltd (ASX:CTD), which rose 9.96% or 1.790 points to trade at 19.760 at the close. Meanwhile, Pendal Group Ltd (ASX:PDL) added 9.48% or 0.710 points to end at 8.200 and Adelaide Brighton Ltd (ASX:ABC) was up 4.39% or 0.140 points to 3.330 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Medibank Private Ltd (ASX:MPL), which fell 8.24% or 0.280 points to trade at 3.120 at the close. Appen Ltd (ASX:APX) declined 7.85% or 1.700 points to end at 19.960 and Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX:CUV) was down 6.59% or 2.060 points to 29.200.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 682 to 468 and 316 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 1.60% to 11.581.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.25% or 3.65 to $1487.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.56% or 0.32 to hit $56.91 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.62% or 0.39 to trade at $62.57 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.01% to 0.6892, while AUD/JPY fell 0.19% to 75.09.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 97.727.