Investing.com – Australia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Gold and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were EML Payments Ltd (ASX:EML), which rose 29.20% or 0.20 points to trade at 0.89 at the close. Healius Ltd (ASX:HLS) added 6.34% or 0.09 points to end at 1.42 and Bluescope Steel Ltd (ASX:BSL) was up 6.07% or 1.29 points to 22.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skycity Entertainment Group Ltd (ASX:SKC), which lost 5.80% or 0.08 points to trade at 1.30 in late trade. Spark New Zealand Ltd (ASX:SPK) declined 5.11% or 0.14 points to end at 2.60 and St Barbara Ltd (ASX:SBM) shed 5.00% or 0.02 points to 0.33.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 605 to 468 and 400 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 2.47% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.13% or 3.45 to $2,646.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $69.13 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.19% or 0.14 to trade at $72.62 a barrel.
AUD/USD was unchanged 0.18% to 0.65, while AUD/JPY fell 0.62% to 99.66.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 107.04.