Investing.com – Australia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Resources and Gold sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Credit Corp Group Ltd (AX:CCP), which rose 11.19% or 1.500 points to trade at 14.900 at the close. GWA Group Ltd (AX:GWA) added 3.76% or 0.080 points to end at 2.210 and Ozforex Grp (AX:OFX) was up 2.86% or 0.070 points to 2.520 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Seven West Media Ltd (AX:SWM), which lost 17.87% or 0.185 points to trade at 0.850 in late trade. Nine Ent Fpo (AX:NEC) declined 13.89% or 0.150 points to end at 0.930 and Beach Energy Ltd (AX:BPT) shed 5.70% or 0.033 points to 0.537.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 696 to 421 and 315 ended unchanged on the Sydney Stock Exchange.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 2.87% to 14.752.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.09% or 1.25 to $1358.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.07% or 0.03 to hit $40.09 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.10 to trade at $42.24 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.12% to 0.7547, while AUD/JPY fell 0.09% to 77.15.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.14% at 95.62.