Investing.com – Australia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Health Care, Metals & Mining and Telecommunication Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Sirtex Medical Ltd (ASX:SRX), which rose 19.51% or 3.420 points to trade at 20.950 at the close. Monadelphous Group Ltd (ASX:MND) added 6.84% or 0.67 points to end at 10.47 and Paladin Energy Ltd (ASX:PDN) was up 4.17% or 0.015 points to 0.375 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cardno Ltd (ASX:CDD), which lost 9.27% or 0.290 points to trade at 2.840 in late trade. Beadell Resources Ltd (ASX:BDR) declined 7.69% or 0.020 points to end at 0.240 and Horizon Oil Ltd (ASX:HZN) shed 7.41% or 0.010 points to 0.125.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 340 to 232 and 41 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 down 3.56% to 14.160.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 0.03% or 0.40 to $1147.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in May fell 1.25% or 0.56 to hit $44.62 a barrel, while the May Brent Oil contract fell 0.29% or 0.15 to trade at $53.31 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.16% to 0.7605, while AUD/JPY fell 0.15% to 92.31.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.05% at 100.09.